How To Use Conquest In A Sentence

King Darius I is noteworthy for his administrative reforms, military conquests, and religious toleration.
Shakespearean tales of love as sacrifice, conquest or unrequited passion are beyond reason.
It contests every inch of space with man, and, aided by incessant heat and moisture, constantly wrests from him his conquests and buries them in a fury of viridescence. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
Their family can trace its origins back to the Norman Conquest.
In the New World, Spain coupled religious orthodoxy with political conquest. Marilyn Mellowes: 'God in America:' A Question of Religious Liberty (VIDEO)

Russian conquests in Asia were certainly no less brutal than those of any other expanding imperial power.
Omi, "grandee", title, applied to chiefs of conquest, and to subjects holding court office; higher than muraji; inferior title in Temmu's peerage A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
After the Spanish conquest, a system known as the encomienda was established in Mexico, with the objective of repartitioning the indigenous land and its inhabitants. A yearly culinary ritual: La matanza
In the colonial context, translation acted as a mediating agency between conquest and conversion.
[5] Meanwhile Eurylochus and his companions, finding that this force had entered and that it was impossible to storm the city, withdrew, not to the Peloponnesus, but to the country once called Aeolis and now Calydon and Pleuron, and to the places in that neighborhood and Proschium in Aetolia; [6] because the Ambraciots had come and urged them to combine with them in attacking Amphilochian Argos and the rest of Amphilochia and Acarnania; affirming that the conquest of these countries would bring all the continent into alliance with Sparta. THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
There was little alteration in the design of the silver penny in the two centuries following the Norman Conquest.
Military conquest and colonial-style occupation is only the most overt form of imperialist domination.
Now besides our voyages and trades of late yeeres to the North and Northeast regions of the world, and our ancient traffique also to those parts; I haue not bene vnmindefull (so farre as the histories of England and of other Countreys would giue me direction) to place in the fore-front of this booke those forren conquests, exploits, and trauels of our English nation, which haue bene atchieued of old. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
ÂHuman males, unlike their snail and rotifer counterparts, actually seek out sterility in a potential partner... and for good reason: could you imagine if each of your own sexual conquests had resulted in offspring? Carin Bondar: No Eggs? No Problem!
These conquests added big Muslim cities like Tashkent and Samarkand to the Russian Empire.
If our recognition of a Greek idiom in Ecclesiastes is valid, it points to a date posterior to the conquest of Alexander the Great.
From Mexico, the spread of viticulture followed swiftly on the heels of Spanish conquests.
The racism of the conquest narratives is replaced with a Christian universalism, where social divisions are set aside in favour of a common humanity in Christ.
For the pioneers who set out to confront these lands, following trailblazers like Daniel Boone, the conquest of the West is a story of courage and hardship that forges the character of America.
Sheridan's Pizarro opens in 1534, with the Spaniard Francisco Pizarro waging a war of conquest against the Inca Empire of Peru.
A violent conquest would be followed by a prolonged period of martial law before the successful imposition of the English law became practicable.
'Norman Conquest,' Froude's 'Armada,' or Napier's 'Peninsular War.' The Book-Hunter at Home
Even when we consider his military conquest, we see that the driving force behind them was his attachment to God.
Following the Roman conquest the settlement was made into the cantonal capital of the region and was enclosed within a series of perimeter walls defining an irregular octagon in plan.
When it comes to the purported conquest of Canaan, individuals like Bryant Wood have strenuously tried to relocate Ai and redate the fall of Jericho's walls. Archive 2009-04-01
During the early part of the 17th century, Japan's shogunate suspected that the traders and missionaries were actually forerunners of a military conquest by European powers.
Moreover German trade, a major reason for interest in the area, provided shipping for the conquest.
Esai is immediately attracted to the lithesome young lady, but Abigail rebuffs his attempts to initiate a simple conquest. Drink One to Me, Christian Bennett by Vicki Allen
the conquest of space
Almost two centuries later, the Bulgars, a Turkic tribe from central Asia, began their conquest of the region.
Note 85: Nóemi Quezada, Enfermedad y maleficio: el curandero in el México colonial (México: UNAM, 1989), p. 107; Ruiz de Alarcón, p. 7; see also Serge Gruzinski's comments on sources and methodology in The Conquest of Mexico, pp. 305 – 8. back Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
From these and other scraps came the long-accepted story of the Anglo-Saxon takeover of Britain: of raids by Angles, Saxons, and Jutes from north Germany and Denmark, followed by piecemeal settlement and conquest.
After the Norman Conquest the forest became a royal hunting preserve.
Ourkam is the Menes of Chaldæa, and his date is put long before that Susian conquest of which we have spoken above. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
Outside this geographical core were many different types of attached or dependent territories, where links with the UK originated in migrations of peoples of British stock, or in variations of conquest or cession.
A fanatic easily makes conquests among a wretched people.
After the Germanic conquest of Britannia, the Anglo-Saxon invaders established a heptarchy of kingdoms across the island, pushing the Celtic Britons into modern Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Scotland and Brittany. Offa's Dyke
This is a constant quantity of a trans-historical nature, independent of all concrete specific political issues, and represents the level to which the right wing public collectively can be induced to believe that the Rest-Of-The-World (ROTW) is practicing collective deception upon them, preparatorily to a planned stealth conquest by subversion of ‘America’. The libertarian right hoax quotient
The weapon employed in the conquest is an "umbrella spoon" shown at left, which automatically opens into a large shield when you gouge down into the meat of the fruit. Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives
Jimmy Rollins 'prediction of a five-game Philadelphia conquest is off to a promising start. Phillies' Lee upstages Steinbrenner's Game 1 visit
1 HERE is always this advantage in contending with illubtrious adversaries, that the combatant is equally im - mortalized by conquest or defeat. Lives of eminent characters
The army made many conquests in the east.
The rising Japanese did not do what many other newly civilized people have done in history: embark on an effort of conquest. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
Any use of military force that aims at conquest of territory, alteration of borders, interference on one side or the other of a civil war is illegitimate.
And if reputation and reward shall attend these conquests, which depend mostly on the fineness and niceties of words, it is no wonder if the wit of man so employed, should perplex, involve, and subtilize the signification of sounds, so as never to want something to say in opposing or defending any question; the victory being adjudged not to him who had truth on his side, but the last word in the dispute. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
The destruction of her temple, just after the conquest of Mecca in 8 / 630 was a spectacular event.
The mares (up to five or six) of the stallion's subsequent conquests and their foals will fall into line accordingly.
Boasting savagely violent battle scenes and an adrenaline fueled chase through the breathtaking Scottish highlands, CENTURION is set during the war between Roman soldiers and Pict tribesmen during the 2nd century Roman conquest of Britain. Neil Marshall’s CENTURION to Stand Guard This Summer – Collider.com
Now the King of Egypt was always called Horus, and the priests of Edfu wishing to magnify their local god, Horus of Behutet, or Horus of Edfu, attributed to him the conquests of this human, and probably predynastic, king. Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations
As a griffin/centaur, the hippogriff, too, suggests Christ's divine conquest of the passions, as evidenced by his donkey ride into Jerusalem.
The proper name in Middle Persian is actually "Parsi," but this changed some time after the Islamic conquest of Persia to "Farsi" because Arabs don't have the bilabial plosive "P" in their language. Think Progress
In that year, the conquest of the Incas in Peru gave the Spaniards strategic positions in the north and south for the subjugation and colonization of Colombia.
Sleep, however, at length got the better of all resistance; and now as if he had already been a deity, as the antients imagined, and an offended one too, he seemed to enjoy his dear-bought conquest. — The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Your gallant battle-hosts and work-hosts, as the others did, will need to be made loyally yours; they must and will be regulated, methodically secured in their just share of conquest under you; -- joined with you in veritable brotherhood, sonhood, by quite other and deeper ties than those of temporary day's wages! Past and Present
He is in a fitful mood which is compounded by an outburst at the table by a maid, who has obviously become one of his many conquests.
`The world's great empress on the Egyptian plain, that spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states. THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
What better could I have done in the smoky warmth of our hearth-fire than to con, by the light of the electric bulb dangling overhead, its annals in some such voluntarily quaint and unconsciously old-fashioned volume as Irving’s Legends of the Conquest of Spain; or to read in some such (if there is any such other) imperishably actual and unfadingly brilliant record of impressions as Gautier’s Familiar Spanish Travels
And so much of the writing of the postconquest era — religious texts, relaciones, natural histories, as well as personal letters — reveals an obsession with illness. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Let us do what the Vikings did for their departed ones and raise giant mugs of mead and bellow songs of warrior conquests!
The next day we headed to the gay Beach Number 7, which was marked like a territorial conquest with a huge rainbow flag flapping in the breeze.
The solid products of Pichincha since the Conquest have been chiefly pumice, coarse-grained and granular trachyte, and reddish porphyroid trachyte. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
It implies, I think, a fundamental break with the domination impulse by which we have "tamed" nature over the millennia of recorded history and built our unstable civilizations, propped up by war and conquest. Robert Koehler: Beyond Petroleum
The link may be due to the fact that risk-taking, possession- grabbing and sexual conquest could all be linked in our ancient evolutionary brains.
What they portend is that—just as Wells had written at the start of "War of the Worlds"—an old, arid world with its dried-up canals is now intent on conquest. Why Steampunk's Time Has Come
The second part talks over from Norman Conquest to "The Great Charter". In the process, Feudal monarchy had sharp conflict and compromise with the power of Christian Religion.
He had no shame about parading his conquests in public. Times, Sunday Times
The one thing that he accomplished was to depict the ruin of an heroic nature through an insatiable ambition for supremacy, doomed by its own vastitude to defeat itself, -- supremacy of conquest and dominion with Tamburlaine, supremacy of knowledge with Dr. Faustus, supremacy of wealth with Barabas, the Jew of The Theory of the Theatre
Now, of course their are material resources to be had in Gaul, and this provides a reason for conquest - for who wants to conquer a barren land?
They made sure o 'their conquest, an' then built their wall, sae that the popular theory that the vallum was a protection against the south is a 'stuff an' nonsense. ' Border Ghost Stories
The well-tried Roman policy of divide and rule had been the basis of Augustan diplomacy and continued during the conquest.
Especially Africa, because I think conquest and advertisement and television and religion has succeeded in manipulating the international African people into a pool of consumership and cheap labour, and in the process has divorced us from admiration of our heritage and relegated our heritage to being primitive and backward and pagan and barbaric; and we've come to believe as a society that fallacy. Thestar.com - Home Page
I find convincing the argument that there was some intellectual activity in non-Muslim lands for a few centuries after the initial conquest, as long as the Christians and Jews (in the Middle East) were still a significant and fructifying influence, and that when they ceased to be, such activity came to an abrupt end. Scary
It covers less than thirty pages folio, and is chiefly occupied, as the title imports, with the military events of the conquest by the duke of Alva. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3
Advocates of out-and-out conquest argued that Indians were either subhumans or heathens and were therefore incapable of having dominion over themselves or over property.
The combination of the setting and the architecture is sublime and the best description I know is, appropriately, in John Hemming's classic, The Conquest of the Incas.
The conquest of major epidemic diseases such as the plague and smallpox was an important contribution, but vulnerability to disease had persisted as a result of poor health.
a conquest of the country; _and it is more than probable_ that, when the Irish Prince had finished his design upon the kingdom of Wales, he carried his arms in a fleet to France and invaded the country at the time called Armorica, but now Little Brittany, and from thence he led Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town
Motte and bailey castles appeared in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
Ok so this is fact and many of us bear the marks of those conquests but now answer this question.
The automotive conquest of a continent, with all the empowering industrialization and economic prowess needed to eroticize and politicize the automobile and the road, remains the greatest collaboration between the poet-artist and the engineer. G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God
Whether successful or not, the hunter would make a charming farewell and stroll off to make another conquest.
After the conquest of the summit, many meters of ropes were left on the way and when a Japanese expedition attempted the climb again in 1977, they found and used the fixed ropes left there 22 years before: those red striped nylon braids were still in perfect condition.
His film will commemorate the golden jubilee of Tensing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary's conquest of Mt. Everest.
He had led the conquest of southern Poland in 1939.
It was filled with murderous conquests, hate, rebellions, and revolutions.
His diaries showed that since 2003 he had mapped out targets for this supplementary income to pay for his conquests. Times, Sunday Times
Travellers cite 'extortionate' demands from resorts after Conquest collapse Toronto Sun
After the conquest of the Incas, Peru's capital, Lima, became the center of Spain's colonial power structure in the Americas.
When Christianity became the state religion of the Roman empire, the early Christian teachings on land were overtaken by the Roman land laws of "dominium" - a legalization of property in land originally obtained by conquest and plunder. P2P Foundation
For hundreds of years, from the Spanish conquest onward, Maya hieroglyphic writing was a mystery to those attempting to read it.
Every week he wrote lushy "poetry" for the journal, about his newest conquest. Sketches New And Old
What's the solution to an artificial border drawn in the sand after military conquest?
To Columbus, the Taino and truly, all Natives he encountered, were fodder for servitude and conquest. Vito de la Cruz: I Don't Have To Celebrate Columbus
Granada, in the heart of their great conquest; and it is a most beautiful church, of a mingled Saracenic plateresque Gothic, as the guide-books remind me, and extravagantly baroque as I myself found it. Familiar Spanish Travels
Drums and the flute were the musical instruments of the Indians before the Spanish conquest.
One of your earlier conquests is not proving as pliable as I had hoped. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
The parish boundaries were often indistinct until after the Norman conquest, but there may have been 150 of these by 1066.
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. Helen Rowland
I has become clear that these large claims involve issues such as chieftainship disputes and territorial expansion, even attempts to establish kingdoms lost through conquest. ANC Daily News Briefing
Once reconquest had been ruled out, plans for ending the stalemate were not always without humour, however. Times, Sunday Times
She should neither wonder nor condemn, but the belief of his self-conquest brought nothing consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress.
The conquest of Iraq was the first test of the Bush doctrine of preventive war.
Thus, your adventures take on a mythical quality and your romances aren't just conquests, they're heart-touching encounters.
The story of Mexican lynching is not a footnote in history but rather a critical chapter in the history of Anglo western expansion and conquest.
“A crown of roses! to signalize a double conquest,” cried Bixiou, glancing at Coralie. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Just as a beautiful woman was a prize that a man could parade before his fellows, the demireps flaunted their own conquests to each other. Dearly Beloved
Since the first conquests of the caliphs, the establishment of the Turks in Anatolia or Asia Minor was the most deplorable loss which the church and empire had sustained. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Although there were some similarities with earlier Anglo-Saxon practice, it is difficult to deny that the tenurial revolution which followed the Norman Conquest witnessed the introduction of a new system of military obligation.
The Romans adulated and revered the god of conquest, Mars, son of Jupiter.
Her great conquests and the gifts they brought made her proud and haughty. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
Under Othman, the third Caliph who belonged to the aristocratic Ummayid branch of Mohammed's tribe Quraysh, the conquests ceased briefly.
In 1511, a decade before the conquest of Mexico, a group called the audiencia was created in Santo Domingo. Vasco de Quiroga: notes on a practical Utopian (1470–1565)
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The prevailing (54) _passion_ of the A burning thirst for conquest is nation is the (54) _love of as prevalent a passion in Russia conquest_, and this (54) _ardent_ as democratic ambition in the free How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
We learn the art and power of no protection - a spiritual power, not an conquest won through armoring ourselves against pain, or against an enemy.
He had realized that Britain could not have peace unless she returned at least some of her former conquests.
Further, the apperceiving ideas become more interesting to the pupil, when he finds that he can use them in the conquest of new fields. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education
The destruction of her temple, just after the conquest of Mecca in 8 / 630 was a spectacular event.
Kings of England had held territorial possessions in France since the Conquest.
The Spanish conquest brought with it a completely different architectural sensibility.
Life is a battle and for every real conquest man has had to summate and focus all his energies, so that anger is the acme of the manifestation of Schopenhauer's will to live, achieve and excel. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
To lose Carroll for £35m and get a fat clapped-out lower-league Finn doesn't quite, as an outsider, seem to herald a new dawn of continental conquest. Why it's continental glamour or bust for Sunderland and Newcastle | Louise Taylor
He said it would "decolonise" South America's poorest country by giving independence to indigenous peoples who have been under oppression dating back to the Spanish conquest. ITN Headlines
The operation known as Rurik's Hammer, the lightning military conquest of all of Scandinavia, had been designed to solidify popular support for the resurrected Soviet government at home despite the rationing, the purges, and the KGB crackdowns; to cow a fragmented and weakened NATO already over-extended in the war-ravaged Balkans; and to remind continental Europe of the might of Soviet arms. Countdown
From the Regia Anglorum website: The excavations of the seventh century settlements at Cowdery's Down and Charlton, both in Hampshire, uncovered evidence of 'cruck' building, a technique previously not thought to have been used until after the Norman Conquest. Thatched barns and stave churches: the possibilities of Anglo-Saxon timber architecture
Pizarro went to Spain and concluded a capitulation with the crown by which he obtained the right of discovery and conquest of Peru for a distance of 200 leagues south of the Gulf of Guayaquil and the office of adelantado, governor and captain-general. 4. Peru and the West Coast, 1522-1581
The chase is always much more exciting than the conquest anyway.
He did mention, however, that one of his major inspirations is the Popol Vuh, a sacred manuscript of mythic stories written in Quiché (a Guatemalan Mayan language) shortly after the Conquest.
These conquests left Charlemagne's empire virtually conterminous with western Christendom, a fact acknowledged by the Pope at Rome on Christmas Day, 800, with the revival of the imperial title.
As with nomads generally, it was always easy for a Parthian king to shark up a great army and achieve a striking victory; but as a rule impossible to keep the horde so sharked up thogether for solid conquests; and above all, it was impossible to organize anything. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
`The world's great empress on the Egyptian plain, that spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states. THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
It arose as a consequence of the Norman conquest and settlement of the Vale of Glamorgan in the early twelfth century.
The destruction of her temple, just after the conquest of Mecca in 8 / 630 was a spectacular event.
Despite his conquests, he remains lonely and isolated.
Yet Cesare still had an appetite for conquest, as did his commanders, Vito Vitelli and Paolo Orsini. THE FAMILY
It is to be expected that the invasion and conquest of these tribes will have caused severe disruption to the upper echelons of society.
In just about all instances, these nation-states are also ethnically heterogeneous, with borders shifting and populations reshuffled over centuries of conquest and tribal conflict.
The sixth is a sweet and Admirable tranquility, arising from the conquest of Fightings within, and frequent Prayer; and this, very, very few have Experience of. The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland.
It is thought that this final move marked the completion of the conquest of his heritage.
Reading his extravagantly received 1994 book, "The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991," the celebrated Kremlinologist Robert Conquest concluded that Mr. Hobsbawm suffers from a "massive reality denial" regarding the Soviet Union. How a True Believer Keeps the Faith
Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard underground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it; and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests: what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relicks, or might not gladly say, Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
One of his conquests, who I shall call Gretchen because she has already suffered enough because of her association with the scally, revealed all to me…
NQM said Mr Walker also believed Conquest's offer was appealing because it would give NQM shareholders exposure to Conquest's Mt Carlton gold, silver and copper project in north Qld. Separately on Tuesday, Mr Klein, now Conquest's executive chairman, said the miner aimed in the next three to four months to formalise a long-term offtake contract with a Chinese smelter company for product from Mt Carlton. WA Business News - Latest News
Scottish blood means persistence, English blood means reverence for the ancient, Welsh blood means religiosity, Danish blood means fondness for the sea, Indian blood means roaming disposition, Celtic blood means fervidity, Roman blood means conquest. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony
After the Arab conquest during the 7th century Arab tribesmen settled in Lebanon.
Norman conquest and its results were of incalculable value to England, by bringing her into relations with the continent, by enduing her with a weight and influence in the affairs of Europe which she could never otherwise have attained, and by giving a new birth to a noble literature which has had no superior in any period of the world's history. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
It is dangerous for youth to behold beauty in the pomp of all her charms, with every look bent upon conquest — more dangerous to see her in the hour of unaffected and unapprehensive ease and simplicity, yielding herself to the graceful whim of the moment, and as willing to be pleased as desirous of pleasing. Anne of Geierstein
I also learned that military conquest, regardless of the stated intentions, seldom succeeds in creating democracy.
He claimed all the land as far west as the North Island tribes' conquests had extended.
But the hour of the conquest of the summit is not the time to think of the descent.
_Edward_ the third, and _Richard_ the second for any that wrote in English meeter: because before their times by reason of the late Normane conquest, which had brought into this Realme much alteration both of our langage and lawes, and there withall a certain martiall barbarousnes, whereby the study of all good learning was so much decayd, as long time after no man or very few entended to write in any laudable science: so as beyond that time there is litle or nothing worth commendation to be founde written in this arte. The Arte of English Poesie
This controversy promoted the transformation of Spanish overseas policy from armed expansion and cruel rule in America to peaceful conquest through missionary in the Philippine islands.
Stalin has metamorphosed into a totalitarian dictator intent on conquest, and the storm clouds of a new conflict gather.
Conquest still continued writing poetry and criticism. Times, Sunday Times
Abroad he offers the glamour of moral commitment and military conquest.
For a man who likes to think of himself as an edu-cator, you talk an awful lot of conquest, " Holland ob'served. The Black Hole
No continent has a monopoly on violence and conquest.
He had realized that Britain could not have peace unless she returned at least some of her former conquests.
The Chinese Communist Party believes in territorial conquest, as evidenced by their assimilation of Tibet and their lobbing missiles at the slightest sign of Taiwanese independence. Basic Oil Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
A crushing conquest imposes the attacker's will; limited coercion gambles on the target's weakness of will.
The winter season suspended his progress: with the return of spring he again aspired to the conquest of Constantinople; but, instead of traversing the hills of Epirus, he turned his arms against Greece and the islands, where the spoils would repay the labor, and where the land and sea forces might pursue their joint operations with vigor and effect. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Les Glorieuses Conquestes de Louis le Grand, par Pontault, _en maroquin_. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
History is full of their bloody exploits, conquests, sacrifices and martyrdoms.
To-day, equipped with the finest machines and systems of destruction the Caucasian mind has devised, handling machines and systems with remarkable and deadly accuracy, this rejuvenescent Japanese race has embarked on a course of conquest, the goal of which no man knows. The Yellow Peril
The conquest of Russia would, of course, also make available a far grander prize: the oil resources of the Caucasus—Maikop, Grozny, and Baku itself. The Prize
Yet his environment is revealed not as the natural paradise lesser writers edit, out of black yearning for a preconquest state of being or white yearning for a pre-industrial one, from the footage of reality. The Child Is the Man
The Incas of Peru, before the Conquest, had a whole system of “writing” based on a variation of knots in colored strings, the “khipu” or “quipu.” Texture : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
audacious visions of the total conquest of space
Colonies were expected to be financially self-supporting and their revenues consequently often bore the heavy costs of defence and the campaigns of conquest.
Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.
The double conquest of Moab and Edom is alluded to (Ps 60: 8; 108: 9). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
By the time of the Spanish Conquest, it was reared as a table bird and eaten by royalty.
After the conquest, the fort was probably reused as a garrison for Roman troops.
When Mrs. Radcliffe, at the date definitely given of 1584, talks about "the Parisian opera," represents a French girl of the sixteenth century as being "instructed in the English poets," and talks about driving in a "landau," the individual blunders are, perhaps, not more violent than those of the chronology by which Scott's Ulrica is apparently a girl at the time of the Conquest and a woman, not too old to be the object of rivalry between Front de Boeuf and his father, not long before the reign of Richard I. The English Novel
The conquest by William of Normandy through the wholesale confiscation and regrant of lands, and through his military arrangements, brought about an almost sudden development and spread of feudalism in England, and it was rapidly systematized and completed in the reigns of his two sons. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
It was the same in Sind when husbands were assured that they would be hanged for cutting down adulterous wives: at once after its conquest the women broke loose; and in The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It arose as a consequence of the Norman conquest and settlement of the Vale of Glamorgan in the early twelfth century.
Now, after remixing and remastering the album, they are set to release the definitive version of their debut, Conquest.
The invention of the aqualung had removed the single most daunting barrier to man's conquest of the planet.
Andes is no better when it comes to the history of the Spanish conquest. The Times Literary Supplement
His next long-term conquest was working as a hotel receptionist. Times, Sunday Times
This global village was brought about first by military and political conquest and now by communication and technological influence.
In the immediate aftermath of annexation or conquest Euric's rule was far from pleasant.
After the conquest, local weavers added heraldic devices to their own decorative motifs.
Coquetry is as fascinating to those who practise it, as to those whom it seduces; and she found herself, shortly, more happy by a conquest effected by wiles and by art, than by any devotion paid straight forward, and uncourted. Camilla
Returning from the conquest of the East, Aurelian had already crossed the Straits which divided Europe from Asia, when he was provoked by the intelligence that the Palmyrenians had massacred the governor and garrison which he had left among them, and again erected the standard of revolt. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The reliefs in the temple tell the story of the queen's divine birth, (even one showing her suckling the goddess Hathor who is always depicted as a cow), her conquests and achievements.
The picture of forceful barbarian invasion in the fifth century may have been influenced by some Byzantine historians of the sixth century, overanxious to justify Justinian's wars of reconquest in the western empire.
He enjoyed the company of his conquests and relished the flattery. The Sun
Battles and conquests, defeats and victories pass over the national mind as rapidly and changefully as the clouds are flying over the sky to-night! Temporal Power
Their story, told in an Icelandic saga, neatly sums up the English experience of the Norman Conquest.
First, the Franciscans were highly critical of the military conquest of the Indians and of the encomienda system in general.
Due in part to improvements in health care and to the progressive conquest by medical science of illnesses such as bubonic plague, yellow fever and yaws, Africa's population grew by almost 40% between 1900 and 1960. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Her great conquests and the gifts they brought made her proud and haughty. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
However, it was quickly rebuilt, this time in stone and unfired brick, and it continued to flourish right down to its destruction following the Roman conquest of the region.
Some British radicals argued, too, that overseas conquest bred autocratic habits, which then threatened liberty at home.
Even as Stalin perpetrated crimes against humanity in his own country, Conquest explains, writers, thinkers, and artists in the West idealized and lionized him because the ideology he espoused held an intrinsic appeal for them. Facing Up to Stalin
What I shall always maintain is that I had a living heartache from the sight of that space on the fagade of this church which is overhung with the chains of the Christian captives rescued from slavery among the Moors by the Catholic Kings in their conquest of Granada. Familiar Spanish Travels
This land is ours by right of conquest.
Yet Cesare still had an appetite for conquest, as did his commanders, Vito Vitelli and Paolo Orsini. THE FAMILY

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