WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Baghdad was centrally located between Europe and Asia and was an important area for trade and exchanges of ideas. Scholars living in Baghdad translated Greek texts and made scientific discoveries-which is why this era, from the seventh to thirteenth centuries CE, is named the Golden Age of Islam .

Detailed explanation-2: -Baghdad was the center of the Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age of the 9th and 10th centuries, growing to be the largest city worldwide by the beginning of the 10th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the Middle Ages, Baghdad acted as an important crossroads for trade routes (by land, river and sea). It served as a lively hub for trade within the region, and especially with neighbouring Islamic states.

Detailed explanation-4: -Baghdad was indeed a city unlike any other from its founding in 762 by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur, up to its collapse in 1300. During that period, the city thrived as the center of religious, political, cultural, scientific, and commercial influence in the Muslim empire and the world as a whole.

Detailed explanation-5: -Baghdad reached the zenith of its economic prosperity and intellectual life in the 8th and early 9th centuries under al-Mahdī (who reigned from 775 to 785) and his successor, Hārūn al-Rashīd (786–809). The glory of Baghdad in this period is reflected in stories in The Thousand and One Nights.