Genghis Khan (1162-1227) aroused more fear than admiration. The forty years of his reign have long been described as a time of uninterrupted massacres, which this bloodthirsty warrior cruelly sponsored.
The exhibition presented in Nantes moderates this appreciation by combining it with the context of cultural and economic effervescence of this power which changed the world. We discover there the unique personality and the open intelligence of a man whose descendants controlled more than 22% of the land on the globe.