How was the Abbasid Caliphate broken up after 945?

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mason m
Dec 14, 2015

"Hulagu Khan sacked Baghdad on (February 10, 1258), causing great loss of life. Al-Musta'sim, the last reigning Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad was then executed on February 20, 1258. The Abbasids still maintained a feeble show of authority, confined to religious matters, in Egypt under the Mamelukes, but the dynasty finally disappeared with Motawakkil III, who was carried away as a prisoner to Constantinople by Selim I."

(from http://www.religionfacts.com/abbasid-caliphate)

Basically, the Mongols came through and established control.

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