Yassa headings as later reported include capital penalties for theft and desertion
From 1206 later reports credit Chinggis Khan with yassa headings that include capital penalties for theft and desertion. Genghis Khan's documented role is: He is credited with a yassa of severe penalties. In the causal graph this event strengthens Judicial independence erosion (court capture), a driver that strengthens Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score — a worsening welfare path.
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From 1206 later reports credit Chinggis Khan with yassa headings that include capital penalties for theft and desertion. The code is reconstructed. Unique execution rolls are not here. Genghis Khan's documented role is: He is credited with a yassa of severe penalties. The code survives as later report, not a recovered statute book.
Context
Juvayni and later writers are carriers. Sharing reconstruction with those reporters is required. Religious-plurality headings are a different yassa path. The setting of Yassa headings as later reported include capital penalties for theft and desertion is the public file around 1206-06-01. Driver justice-judicial-independence-erosion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Why it matters
Worsening path from Yassa headings as later reported include capital penalties for theft and desertion on 1206-06-01. Reported capital penalties are a justice path of medium confidence because the yassa is reconstructed. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.
Shared responsibility is part of Yassa headings as later reported include capital penalties for theft and desertion. Naming Genghis Khan does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1206-06-01 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.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Genghis Khan
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.48 · verified
He is credited with a yassa of severe penalties. The code survives as later report, not a recovered statute book.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactYassa headings as later reported include capital penalties for theft and desertion
- strengthensDriverJudicial independence erosion (court capture)
- strengthensIndicators (4)Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score
impact weight 0.45 · Effect from 1 June 1206 · verified
Reported capital penalties are a justice path of medium confidence because the yassa is reconstructed.
- Worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.32 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.72)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.32 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.7)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.31 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.69)
Observed
0.62 score from 0 to 1 · 0.25 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.37 score from 0 to 1 to 0.62 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
All indicators on this path (4)
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.3)
Observed
42.5 index score (0-100) · 7.53 below the normal line (2025)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Cambridge History of Inner Asia — Chinggisid law neighbourhoodCambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Mongol empire, foundationEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: Britannica — Mongol empire, yassa at https://www.britannica.com/place/Mongol-empire (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Cambridge History of Inner Asia — Chinggisid law neighbourhood at https://doi.org/10.1017/cho9781139056045 (opens in a new tab) (Cambridge University Press). Official carrier: Britannica — Mongol empire, yassa (https://www.britannica.com/place/Mongol-empire (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Cambridge History of Inner Asia — Chinggisid law neighbourhood (https://doi.org/10.1017/cho9781139056045 (opens in a new tab); Cambridge University Press).
Established: a sourced public record of Yassa headings as later reported include capital penalties for theft and desertion under 1206-06-01 for Genghis Khan. Established: a sourced public record of Yassa headings as later reported include capital penalties for theft and desertion under 1206-06-01.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Yassa headings as later reported include capital penalties for theft and desertion are separate paths.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorGenghis Khan
- contributed toFactYassa headings as later reported include capital penalties for theft and desertion
- strengthensDriverJudicial independence erosion (court capture)
- strengthensIndicatorRule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score
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Factrail. (2026). Yassa headings as later reported include capital penalties for theft and desertion. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/gk-yassa-capital-1206
https://factrail.ai/facts/gk-yassa-capital-1206
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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