Jin destroys the Liao dynasty
1125
After barely a decade of rebellion, the Jurchen captured the last Liao emperor as he fled west across the steppe. Two centuries of Khitan rule collapsed. A surviving prince fled to Central Asia and founded the Qara Khitai, a Buddhist empire straddling the Silk Road. The speed of the Liao collapse stunned the Chinese world and served as a grim warning of what the Jurchen could accomplish.
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