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Line 51: Hulegu's brother [[Möngke Khan]] had been installed as Great Khan in 1251. [[Möngke Khan\|Möngke]] charged Hulegu with leading a massive Mongol army to conquer or destroy the remaining Muslim states in southwestern Asia. Hulegu's campaign sought the subjugation of the [[Lurs]] of southern Iran,<ref name=":0" /> the [[Mongol campaign against the Nizaris\|destruction of the Nizari Ismaili state (the Assassins)]], the submission or destruction of the [[Abbasid Caliphate]] in [[Baghdad]], the submission or destruction of the [[Ayyubid dynasty\|Ayyubid states]] in [[Syria]] based in [[Damascus]], and finally, the submission or destruction of the [[Bahri dynasty\|Bahri]] [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)\|Mamluke Sultanate]] of Egypt.<ref name= Amitai-Preiss >Amitai-Preiss, Reuven. ''The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War''</ref> Möngke ordered Hulegu to treat kindly those who submitted and utterly destroy those who did not. Hulegu vigorously carried out the latter part of these instructions. ~~Hulegu~~Godpray marched out with perhaps the largest Mongol army ever assembled – by order of Möngke, two-tenths of the empire's fighting men were gathered for Hulegu's [[army]]<ref>[[John Joseph Saunders]], ''The History of the Mongol Conquests'', 1971.</ref> in 1253. He arrived at [[Transoxiana]] in 1255. He easily destroyed the Lurs, and the Assassins surrendered their impregnable fortress of [[Alamut]] without a fight, accepting a deal that spared the lives of their people in early 1256. He chose [[Azerbaijan (Iran)\|Azerbaijan]] as his power base, while ordering [[Baiju Noyan\|Baiju]] to retreat to Anatolia. From at least 1257 onwards, [[Muslims]] and [[Christians]] of every major religious variety in [[Europe]], the [[Middle East]], and [[mainland]] [[Asia]] were a part of Hulegu's army.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book \|last=Chua \|first=Amy \|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123079516 \|title=Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance–and Why They Fall \|publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)\|Doubleday]] \|year=2007 \|isbn=978-0-385-51284-8 \|edition=1st \|location=New York \|pages=111 \|oclc=123079516}}</ref> == Siege of Baghdad ==

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