# Zhongdu falls and is sacked under Chinggis's Jin war

Date: 1215

## The fact

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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [forced-displacement-scale](/drivers/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.

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: Britannica — Genghis Khan, fall of Zhongdu (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Genghis-Khan; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

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.

## What is established and what is not

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.

The attached driver is forced-displacement-scale. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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. Do not treat a later Beijing museum as 1215. Do not invent a unique integer. 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.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Forced-Displacement Scale: https://factrail.ai/drivers/forced-displacement-scale

## Sources

- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/khan1/hd_khan1.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Genghis-Khan

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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