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Siege of Zhongdu (1215)
On the Mongol Empire map as “Fall of Zhongdu”
May 1215 — Starvation brings down the Jin capital, Zhongdu, beneath modern Beijing. A Khwarazmian envoy describes the ground as greasy with human fat. The fall also brings captured Khitan and Chinese clerks and engineers into the khan’s service. Among the conquered are people who can help the Mongols take other walled cities.
When May 1215 Type Battle site Chapter Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty (chapter 3 of Mongol Empire)Atlas The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294 BATTLE SITE · THE MONGOL EMPIRE, 1206–1294 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — historical political boundaries · Asia for Educators, Columbia University — Three Invasions Led by Chinggis · Natural Earth — physical reference geography
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Selected dated polygons; documented unions, differences and shared edges for event-specific reconstructions; projected for display. Asia for Educators, Columbia University. Text consulted for historical facts; no map or prose copied Natural Earth. Public domain For the capture of Zhongdu, the 1216–1219 Mongol geometry supplies only the portion transferred from the 1206–1215 Jin outline. The remainder of Jin territory uses the closest record, dated 1216–1226.
Published polity extents are used at the date resolution available in their sources. Hatched affected regions and route arrows are educational reconstructions; the source details distinguish them from imported boundaries.
Chapter anchor 1215.5 uses the existing snapshot s1215 (1215.4). The lesson date remains separate from the source reference dates.
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