Genghis Khan & the Mongol Invaders Were White Scythians

In the West, it is taken as historical fact that Genghis Khan and the Mongol invaders of Europe from the East were racial Asians. However, the notion that they were Asian didn’t arise until the 18th Century in western Europe–the Russians themselves never believed it, and there is no evidence whatsoever that the Mongolian people themselves ever believed it.

Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson has done a recent podcast where he goes into fascinating detail debunking this long-held legend. While there certainly are a small number of Europeans with some asiatic admixture, it did not come from this mythic Mongol invasion.

Dr. Johnson makes the following points:

-No evidence of Mongol empire in northern China
-No Mongolian histories give credence to the theory
-Russians have never believed this thesis
-Not one single Asian skeleton found in Russia
-No contemporary source describes Mongols as Asian
-Contemporary 13th Century paintings show Mongols and Rus looking the same racially
-Cossacks were called Tartars
-Mongol comes from Greek word meaning “great”
-Contemporary sources describe Mongols as White men
-Genghis Khan had red hair and gray eyes
-Mongols were Scythians from eastern Russia, Siberia
-Rus, Slav, Avars, Scythian used interchangeably
-Marco Polo referred to the Scythians
-Cossacks are the closest descendants of the Mongols
-Only the Scythians had an empire large enough to field such an army
-Orthodox Church benefited from Mongol occupation
-Muscovites welcomed the Mongol occupation
-Anti-Russian writers concocted the Asian Mongol theory
-No asian artifacts from the Mongol occupation
-Sarmatians were proto-Slavic peoples
-Mongols used Scythian metalwork
-Eastern Scythians were dominant in China

You can listen to this fascinating lecture here on archive.org and also embedded below. He begins talking about the Mongol Myth at about 27:00 into the podcast.

Update: the podcast appears to have been removed, but here is a video: