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Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated

In 1220 Bukhara was taken and burned in Chinggis Khan's Khwarezm war. In the causal graph this event weakens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1220 Bukhara was taken and burned in Chinggis Khan's Khwarezm war. Later Iranica and Britannica date the sack. It is not Samarkand. Genghis Khan's documented role is: His armies took Bukhara. Fire and killing are in Juvayni-as-later-English; unique integers are not invented.

Context

A Friday-mosque sermon story in Juvayni is later prose, not a tape. Sharing the sack with the army is required. The setting of Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated is the public file around 1220-01-01. Driver humanitarian-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Why it matters

Worsening path from Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated on 1220-01-01. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Genghis Khan

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.6 · verified

    His armies took Bukhara. Fire and killing are in Juvayni-as-later-English; unique integers are not invented.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Encyclopaedia Iranica — Čengīz KhanEncyclopaedia Iranica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Genghis Khan, Kereit warEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Encyclopaedia Iranica — Bukhara in the Mongol conquest neighbourhood at https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/cengiz-khan (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Iranica). Independent locator: Britannica — Genghis Khan, Bukhara at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Genghis-Khan (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Encyclopaedia Iranica — Bukhara in the Mongol conquest neighbourhood (https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/cengiz-khan (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Iranica). Independent carrier: Britannica — Genghis Khan, Bukhara (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Genghis-Khan (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: a sourced public record of Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated under 1220-01-01 for Genghis Khan. Established: a sourced public record of Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated under 1220-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated. Naming Genghis Khan does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1220-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorGenghis Khan
  2. contributed toFactBukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated
  3. weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/gk-bukhara-1220

https://factrail.ai/facts/gk-bukhara-1220

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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