conquest
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After a history of aggressive expansion and conquest, this was a rare example of a territory joining the U.S. through its own free choice, rather than being pursued.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
The conquest took place around 300 years before the events of “Game of Thrones” and is detailed in George R.R.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
London's sold-out Bayeux Tapestry exhibition will open Thursday to a British public gripped by "mania" as the medieval artwork depicting the Norman conquest of England goes on display outside France for the first time.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The artefact, almost 1,000 years old, is a 70m-long storyboard of embroidered pictures showing an epic account of the Norman conquest and the Battle of Hastings of 1066.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Conversion from the old religions to Christianity took several forms across Europe: sometimes through peaceful persuasion, sometimes through conquest.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The Al-Bass site is centred on a necropolis that dates back three millennia to Tyre's time as a major Phoenician city and was still in use until the Arab conquests of the 7h Century.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
He’s aware that online critics could dispute his conquests, so sometimes he insists on visiting multiple points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
Covering 500 years and events from conquests to wars to racism, “America, América” should be required reading in those history classes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025
After 1909, Secretary of State Philander Knox, one of the founders of the United States Steel Corporation, pursued a program of "dollar diplomacy" that promoted American power through overseas investments rather than territorial conquests.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025
Fanaticism in war, of the type that drove recorded Christian and Islamic conquests, was probably unknown on Earth until chiefdoms and especially states emerged within the last 6,000 years.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing conquest
"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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"Remarks at the Dedication of the Aerospace Medical Health Center," Vocabulary from the speech
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The Middle East and Central Asia - Introductory
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