# Temüjin orders the destruction of the Tatars as later Secret History chronology dates it

Date: 1202

## The fact

Around 1202, as later Secret History chronology dates it, Temüjin ordered the destruction of the Tatars, including a received height-threshold killing of males. It is a massacre heading, not a census. Genghis Khan's documented role is: He ordered a massacre of Tatar males above a height threshold as later told. Followers executed it; unique headcounts are not invented.

## Context

The Tatars had been steppe rivals and, in the same file, involved in Yesügei's death story. Sharing the killing with named noyans is required. 1206 is a different instrument. The setting of Temüjin orders the destruction of the Tatars as later Secret History chronology dates it is the public file around 1202-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Internet Archive — Secret History of the Mongols English as later carrier at https://archive.org/details/secrethistoryofthemongolsfranciswoodmancleaves_814_r (Internet Archive). Independent locator: Britannica — Genghis Khan, early tribal wars at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Genghis-Khan (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Internet Archive — Secret History of the Mongols English as later carrier (https://archive.org/details/secrethistoryofthemongolsfranciswoodmancleaves_814_r; Internet Archive). Independent carrier: Britannica — Genghis Khan, early tribal wars (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Genghis-Khan; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Internet Archive — Secret History of the Mongols English as later carrier (https://archive.org/details/secrethistoryofthemongolsfranciswoodmancleaves_814_r; Internet Archive).

## Significance

Worsening path from Temüjin orders the destruction of the Tatars as later Secret History chronology dates it on 1202-01-01. A completed tribal massacre is a humanitarian-harm path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

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

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Temüjin orders the destruction of the Tatars as later Secret History chronology dates it under 1202-01-01 for Genghis Khan. Established: a sourced public record of Temüjin orders the destruction of the Tatars as later Secret History chronology dates it under 1202-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat 1202 as Khwarezm. Year-level is honest. Mixed effects of Temüjin orders the destruction of the Tatars as later Secret History chronology dates it are separate paths.

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

The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Temüjin orders the destruction of the Tatars as later Secret History chronology dates it. Naming Genghis Khan does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1202-01-01 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.

## People

- Genghis Khan: https://factrail.ai/people/genghis-khan

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Genghis-Khan
- https://archive.org/details/secrethistoryofthemongolsfranciswoodmancleaves_814_r

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gk-tatar-1202