Problem
Read the primary source: Yakut: Baghdad under the Abassids, 1000 C.E., and answer the following questions.
a) What role does the Tigris River play in terms of hygiene and trade?
b) List the most prominent buildings in Baghdad and their functions.
c) What services did the city provide for its inhabitants?
d) In what ways did Baghdad function as an international city? Give examples.
e) Is the author a historian, traveler, merchant, or something else? How do you know? (give evidence from the source to explain your answer?)