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The Golden City

Baghdad in the age of the Abbasid caliphs was a city of wonders. Scholars walked the same streets as merchants. Libraries held books translated from Greek, Persian, Indian, and Chinese into Arabic. The smell of ink and roses was everywhere. your child had grown up in the city's eastern quarter, where the street lamps were lit by the lampkeeper every evening, and the neighbours always left extra bread outside their doors for those who needed it.