exact tribute

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Huk agents exact tribute and taxes from thousands of Filipinos.

From Time Magazine Archive

For example, the Spanish conquistadores wished to exact tribute from Mexico’s defeated native populations, so they were very interested in the Aztec Empire’s tribute lists.

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

But sometimes one city would establish an ascendancy over others and exact tribute from their population.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

These two men informed us there were five more chiefs, living but two hours from each other, who would exact tribute, or black-mail, like those we had seen.

From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)

Armies were scarcely more than great collections of armed men, led by kings, either to protect their States from hostile invaders, or to acquire new territory, or to exact tribute from weaker nations.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements by Lord, John