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Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty

from 1211 · 13th century

The Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty was the series of campaigns from 1211 in which Genghis Khan and his successors destroyed the Jurchen Jin state in northern China. The Jin capital Zhongdu fell in 1215, and the dynasty ended in 1234. The conquest brought northern China under Mongol rule, laying the base for the Yuan Dynasty.

Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty
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