Skip to content
eventVerified

Zhongdu falls and is sacked under Chinggis's Jin war

In 1215 Zhongdu fell and was sacked in Chinggis Khan's Jin war. In the causal graph this event strengthens Forced-Displacement Scale, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

Read the full account

In 1215 Zhongdu fell and was sacked in Chinggis Khan's Jin war. Later encyclopaedias and museum essays date the capture. Unique dead are not supplied here. Genghis Khan's documented role is: His forces took Zhongdu (later Beijing). Massacre and flight are in the received file; he did not file a unique body count here.

Context

Jin had moved pressure south. Sharing the sack with the army is required. Khwarezm is a different theatre. The setting of Zhongdu falls and is sacked under Chinggis's Jin war is the public file around 1215-01-01. Driver forced-displacement-scale is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

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

Why it matters

Worsening path from Zhongdu falls and is sacked under Chinggis's Jin war on 1215-01-01. Sack of a capital is a displacement and humanitarian path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

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

Who was responsible

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

  • Genghis Khan

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.64 · verified

    His forces took Zhongdu (later Beijing). Massacre and flight are in the received file; he did not file a unique body count here.

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.Met Heilbrunn — Mongols in China, religious neighbourhoodMetropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Genghis Khan, Kereit warEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Britannica — Genghis Khan, fall of Zhongdu at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Genghis-Khan (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Met Heilbrunn — Mongol conquest of North China at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/khan1/hd_khan1.htm (opens in a new tab) (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Official carrier: Britannica — Genghis Khan, fall of Zhongdu (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Genghis-Khan (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Met Heilbrunn — Mongol conquest of North China (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/khan1/hd_khan1.htm (opens in a new tab); Metropolitan Museum of Art).

Established: a sourced public record of Zhongdu falls and is sacked under Chinggis's Jin war under 1215-01-01 for Genghis Khan. Established: a sourced public record of Zhongdu falls and is sacked under Chinggis's Jin war under 1215-01-01.

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

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Zhongdu falls and is sacked under Chinggis's Jin war are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Zhongdu falls and is sacked under Chinggis's Jin war. Naming Genghis Khan does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1215-01-01 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 toFactZhongdu falls and is sacked under Chinggis's Jin war
  3. strengthensDriverForced-Displacement Scale
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

Cite this page

Factrail. (2026). Zhongdu falls and is sacked under Chinggis's Jin war. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/gk-zhongdu-1215

https://factrail.ai/facts/gk-zhongdu-1215

Accessed 16 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

Dispute this factNamed here, or represent someone who is? Request a right of reply.