conquest

After the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, Mexico’s European overlords used its silver and its agricultural wealth to nourish their global enterprises.

“It is also a tribute to the pharaoh. Thutmosis III is the son of the sun. The obelisk will be a monument proclaiming the glory of his conquests and a testament to his accomplishments.”

This Winthropism, for the next two centuries, would be used as justification for “Western conquest of Native Americans, enslavement of Africans, and colonization of everyone else.”

Russia’s army is on the verge of its biggest Ukrainian conquest in more than two years.

The Arch of Titus makes an explicit and graphic connection between the architectural form of the triumphal arch, autocratic leadership and violent conquest.