Events

Colfax Avenue: Genghis Khan founded and ruled over the Mongolian Empire, the largest contiguous land empire in the history of the world. Often misunderstood, Genghis Khan was far more than the world’s greatest conqueror. Time magazine and The Washington Post magazine and the named him “the most important person of the last millennium.” Join Active Minds as we explore how this illiterate warrior-nomad came to have such a lasting and profound impact on world politics and modern society. [Note: The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is featuring a Genghis Khan exhibit from October 16th, 2009 to January 10th, 2010.] PDF of the Active Minds Lecture Series.