conquest

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Sheinbaum's predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, had demanded in 2019 that Spain apologise for human rights violations during its conquest.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

The horse also proved indispensable in the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1521.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

It was a fever dream of geopolitical conquest.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

Alexander Gabuev, the director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin who played Putin in the exercise, pointed out that the smokescreen of “humanitarian” intervention was crucial to enable Russian conquest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Rivaling germs as proximate factors behind Europe’s conquest of the Americas were the differences in all aspects of technology.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond