Genghis Khan helped promote European cultural progress
Genghis Khan, known for rampaging across much of Asia, Europe and the Middle East to create one of the world's greatest empires, also brought along the essence of Asian culture and promoted cultural progress in Europe, Chinese historians say.
"Genghis Khan introduced papermaking and printing technologies to Europe and pioneered cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe," said Prof. Zhu Yaoting, a specialist on Mongolian history at Beijing Union University. "He brought cultural progress that helped liberate the Europeans from the bondage of theology -- in this sense, his expeditions served as catalyst for the Renaissance," he said Thursday at a seminar on Genghis Khan studies held in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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