The end of Zimri-Lim’s Mari is a completed destruction-and-takeover heading
Dated 1 January 1761: The end of Zimri-Lim’s Mari is a completed destruction-and-takeover heading. 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.
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Letters as later published. Unique refugee counts are not invented. Hammurabi did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.
Context
Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.
Hammurabi Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.
Hammurabi’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Old Babylonian chronology is reconstructed (Middle Chronology often used).
Why it matters
Letters as later published. Unique refugee counts are not invented.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Hammurabi
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactThe end of Zimri-Lim’s Mari is a completed destruction-and-takeover heading
- strengthensDriverForced-Displacement Scale
- strengthensIndicators (2)People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 1 January 1761 · verified
Letters as later published. Unique refugee counts are not invented.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.44 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.8)
Observed
69M people (stock, end-of-year) · 28M above the normal line (2025)
Worse than normal3 readings, 2023–2025: rose from 68M people (stock, end-of-year) to 69M people (stock, end-of-year).
Above normal = worse
- Worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.25 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.46)
Observed
10.4% · 10.2 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 11.1% to 10.4%.
Above normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Oriental Institute — Amarna letters publicationUniversity of Chicago · High credibility · verified
- 2.ARCHIBAB — Old Babylonian letters and year namesARCHIBAB · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Hammurabi did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. Official page: https://www.archibab.fr/ (opens in a new tab). Independent page: https://oi.uchicago.edu/ (opens in a new tab).
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorHammurabi
- contributed toFactThe end of Zimri-Lim’s Mari is a completed destruction-and-takeover heading
- strengthensDriverForced-Displacement Scale
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). The end of Zimri-Lim’s Mari is a completed destruction-and-takeover heading. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-mari-end
https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-mari-end
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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