Born Then1268–1279
Life during the Mongol conquest of the Song
Be born in a place it hit, a few years before it began, and see what it did to five ordinary lives.
What it meant for ordinary people
Kublai Khan's forces besieged Xiangyang for five years and then took the Song capital Hangzhou in 1276. The last Song loyalists were defeated at sea at Yamen in 1279. The south suffered less than the north had, but people were ranked below Mongols and northerners under the Yuan.
Deaths: unknown; some sieges, such as Changzhou, ended in massacres.
How hard it hits each person in the game (risk of death, of being conscripted, of leaving) comes from our model, estimated from the sources.
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