This article comes from Figaro Magazine
Born in the steppe, from a lineage “coming from the sky”, semi-legendary, trained in a hostile environment, 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, in the 13th century, controlled more than 22% of the land on the globe, uniting China, the central lands of the Islam and the Slavic world.
Genghis Khan's grandson, Koubilai, became emperor of China: he founded the Yuan dynasty and established its capital in what is now Beijing.
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