Which caliph built Baghdad as the new Abbasid capital?
AHarun al-Rashid
BAl-Ma’mun
CAl-Mahdi
DAl-Mansur
Correct answer
D. Al-Mansur
Explanation
The Abbasid Caliphate first centered its government in Kufa, modern-day Iraq, but in 762 the caliph al-Mansur founded the city of Baghdad, near the ancient Babylonian capital city of Babylon and Sassanid city of Ctesiphon.