Chinggis Khaan exhibition opens in California
The world’s most extensive exhibition dedicated to Chinggis Khaan, a founder of Mongol Empire, was opened at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Simi Valley, California.
The world’s most extensive exhibition dedicated to Chinggis Khaan, a founder of Mongol Empire, was opened at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Simi Valley, California past Friday. The goal of the exhibition is to make the public awareness on another side of Chinggis Khaan, the conqueror who dominated three times more land in his lifetime from 1162-1227 than either Julius Caesar or Alexander the Great, said library spokeswoman Melissa Giller. “Khaan was also a civilizer and a lawmaker and a democratiser, and that’s what we’re trying to show,” she added. Visitors will learn that Chinggis Khaan not only created the nation of Mongolia and its written language, but his lineage established the modern borders of China, India, Iran and Korea and opened trade routes that united East and West. Chinggis Khaan’s empire brought such innovations to the West as Mongolian-style democracy, pants, the pony express, passports, cannons, paper money, skis, violins, baklava, noodles, lemons and tea, said the exhibit’s creator, Don Lessem. In all, the exhibit features more than 200 objects, including costumes, jewels, ornaments, instruments and numerous other relics and elaborate artifacts from 13th-century Mongolia. The exhibition will run until 19 August 2018.
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