Song-Mongol alliance fractures after Jin collapse
1234
With the Jurchen Jin dynasty destroyed, the Song empire foolishly attempted to reclaim Kaifeng and the Yellow River plain from its Mongol allies. The resulting border clashes gave the Mongols a pretext for war against the Song that would consume the next forty-five years and end the last Chinese dynasty.
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Also in 1234 (3 other events on record)
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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