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House of Wisdom, a Rare card
The House of Wisdom, also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was a major Abbasid-era public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 168
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 210,000
Power 168 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In popular reference, it acted as one of the world's largest public libraries during the Islamic Golden Age, and was founded either as a library for the collections of the fifth Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid in the late 8th century or as a private collection of the second Abbasid caliph al-Mansur to house rare books and collections in the Arabic language.
- During the reign of the seventh Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun, it was turned into a public academy and a library.
- It was destroyed in 1258 during the Mongol siege of Baghdad.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The House of Wisdom article was read about 210,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get House of Wisdom
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, House of Wisdom (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Zereshk, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
