How did the Mongol Empire affect the Abbasid caliphate? A. The Mongols forced the Abbasids to stop dividing power between sultans. B. The Mongols started the Abbasid golden age by building the House of Wisdom. C. The Mongols weakened the Abbasids by refusing to trade with them. D. The Mongols attacked Abbasid territory and destroyed its empire.

The Mongol conquest of the Abbasid Caliphate culminated in the horrific sack of Baghdad that effectively ended the Islamic Golden Age. The Islamic Golden Age—from the 8th to the mid-13th century—was one of the greatest periods of human flourishment in knowledge and progress, with Baghdad as its focal point.    But in January 1258, a vast Mongol army reached the city's perimeter and demanded that the caliph—al-Musta'sim, the nominal spiritual authority of the Islamic world—surrender.

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the answer is pretty much D. The Mongols attacked Abbasid territory and destroyed its empire.

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