But the riches acquired by conquest and tribute had brought seeds of evil with them.
Her fatal hurt was theconquest of Constantinople by the Turks (1453).
Mohammed's religion worked on the ardent Arabian temperament like magic, and engendered a fierce passion for conquest and proselytizing.
The Greek Emperor made common cause with his fellow Christians, and the immediate danger of conquest was arrested; but throughout this dismal ninth century, and all the tenth, southern Italy continued to suffer from Saracen marauders.
Theodoric, now master of Italy, both by right of conquest and by Imperial commission, set himself, in his turn, to the task of uniting Barbarians and Romans throughout the peninsula under one stable government.
Not by Italian victories, but in consequence of Prussian victories, the conquest of Rome was finally effected.
Intermarriage must soon have begun; but not until the conquest by the Franks does there seem to have been any real blending of the races.
The Goths were disintegrated; the Papacy and Latin people were with him; and his great general, Belisarius, fresh from the brilliant conquest of the Vandal kingdom in Africa, was ready for the task.
You must remember that to this initiatory school of self-conquest the world owes many of its best and most gifted children.
During the reign of Constantine, the influence of Alexandria was much diminished, and with the Mahometan conquest it fell to the rank of a provincial town.
A few years later it entered upon a system of conquest unparalleled in the history of the world.
Mahomet's life had been almost entirely occupied in the conquest or conversion of his native country.
In comparison with these, theconquest of Caesar and Alexander dwindle into insignificance.
No doubt the Jews exulted as the tide of Saracen conquest swept onward.
These highways greatly aided the Spaniards in their conquestof the country.
Meanwhile the Spaniards were besieging Leyden, and if that city fell, the {137} conquest of the country would inevitably follow.
The remaining details of the Saracen conquest we need not here relate.
The conquest of Mexico and Peru by the Spaniards will ever remain one of "the bloodiest pictures in the book of Time.
The conquestof the city being achieved, Titus proceeded to demolish its noble structures, its fortifications, palaces and walls.
In this conquest two-thirds went to the Count, one-third to the Genoese.
Where could this chapter begin better than in speaking of that most glorious conquest of the great city of Ceuta, of which famous victory the heavens felt the glory and the earth the benefit.
He now proceeded to make a conquest of the island, which he found more difficult than he expected, and had much ado to force the Indians to submit.
We were accompanied by one of the natives, who was baptized by the name of Francisco, whom I saw settled and married at the town of Santa Fe, after the conquest of Mexico.
In our edition of the present article we have largely availed ourselves of The true History of the Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diaz, translated by Maurice Keating, Esq.
Commencement of the expedition of Hernando Cortes for the conquest of Mexico, in 1518.
The conquestand settlement of the island of Cuba by Diego Velasquez.
Commencement of the Expedition of Hernando Cortes for the Conquest of Mexico, in 1518.
History of the discovery and conquest of Mexico, written in the year 1568, by Captain Bernal Diaz del Castillo, one of the conquerors, Introduction, Preface by the Author.
It is square, and of that kind of building which prevailed from the Conquest till about the time of our second Henry.
It was destroyed by the Danes in 993; but about the time of the Conquest was in good repair.
Another race was to occupy the land successively won by Roman and Visigoth; and to obtain a clear conception of the manner in which the conquest was effected we must review the previous century.
That same summer he left the city of Cartagena with twelve thousand horsemen, thirty-seven elephants, and ninety thousand foot soldiers, for the conquest of Rome.
To note how, when once started, the stream of exploration and conquest flowed on unimpeded, we have but to turn to the island of Santo Domingo, discovered by Columbus in 1492, and where the first schemes of colonization were carried out.
By the conquest of Peru and the murder of the Inca by Pizarro more than fifteen million dollars in treasure was secured, and ultimately the mines of that country enriched Spain for many, many years.
Florida was ceded in 1819 to the United States, which ultimately acquired a vast portion of Mexican territory by conquest and treaty.
Yet the truth was told us long ago that he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city, and we might have learnt by our experience of the peace that the only conquest that really pays is the conquest of oneself.
The loser bears the burden of defeat; The victor wins, but conquest is a crime.
But if among my triumphs fate has said Thy conquest shall be written, know this heart Still sends the life blood coursing: and this arm (28) Still vigorously flings the dart afield.
Macedon he left His home obscure; Athena he despised The conquest of his sire, and spurred by fate Through Asia rushed with havoc of mankind, Plunging his sword through peoples; streams unknown Ran red with Persian and with Indian blood.
How, then, can we doubt that here, as elsewhere, there were alternations of grandeur and poverty, of periods of conquest and expansion and epochs of civil war or of defeat by foreign invaders?
The conquest of Egypt was begun by the Ionian soldiers and merchants who were introduced into the Nile valley by Psemethek; it was bloodlessly completed by the arms of Alexander.
It was no more killed by the Roman conquest than it was by that of the Ptolemies.
The weapons carried by the infantry during several reigns succeeding the Conquest were bows and arrows, half-pikes, swords, and daggers.
And to put the climax on the whole, his redoubtable Old Guards, who had decided almost every field in his favour up to the conquest of Leipsic, driven back in confusion, with our bayonets uncomfortably close to them.
It told them in language not to be misunderstood that conquest had now reached their doors; that they were not permitted to plunder the nations of the world with impunity, without punishment.
The footing which they obtained there was secured when, three hundred years later, Alexander the Great marked his conquest in the founding of the city which bears his name.
Tylor adds that there is no sufficient reason to make us doubt that this purely phonetic writing was of native Mexican origin, and that after the Spanish Conquest it was turned to account in a new and curious way.
His sons Hassan and Hossein had been put to death; and it was only in the time of the eighth successor, when Abdelmalek had overcome all competition, that the unity of the Moslem Empire was restored, and the word given for conquest as before.
Whether it was the prompting of ambition, or a far-sighted policy, which led him to attempt the conquest of Scotland, we need not stop to inquire.
This name became a common title of the devil in Germany, under the form of Vizliputzli, soon after the conquest of Mexico, as may be seen in the old popular drama of Faust.
And even those who have acquired empire by conquest must desire to have men fit to serve them, and should, in consistency with their own aims, endeavour to provide what will increase their strength and courage.
Daniel’s History of England from the Conquestto the Reign of Edward III.
Even just conquest gives no further right than to reparation of injury; and the posterity of the vanquished, he seems to hold, can forfeit nothing by their parent’s offence, so that they have always a right to throw off the yoke.
In the Conquest of Grenada the versification is rather more broken.
Among these is the Conquest of Granada by Graziani, published in 1650.
Now every work of the great Christian schools expresses primarily, conquest over death; conquest not grievous, but absolute and serene; rising with the greatest of them, into rapture.
The Spirit of Wisdom in Conduct, bearing, in sign of conquest over troublous and disturbing evil, the skin of the wild goat, and the head of the slain Spirit of physical storm.
All that they did, they did well, and attempted nothing over which conquest was doubtful.
In the second place man has an accumulative faculty, a social memory, whereby he is able to carry on to the conquest of a new environment whatever has served him in the old.
Lion and Unicorn signify theconquest of the two hemispheres, Matter and Mind,' said Dr.
The lordly gentleman plotted out a scheme of colonisation and conquestin that region with the coolness of a practised freebooter.
His patron Tiglath-Pileser ended his magnificent reign of conquest in 727, soon after he had seated Hoshea on the throne.
The conquestof Selah secured the road for his commercial caravans.
What made the humiliation more terrible was that the invasion and conquest were accompanied with acts of unwonted cruelty.
His victory over the Edomites, and his conquest of Petra, had puffed him up with the mistaken notion that he was a very great man and an invincible warrior.
The account of his decisive conquest is preserved in the Eponym Canon, and the passages which refer to the defeat of the Syrians will be found in the First Appendix at the end of the volume.
The annals of Sennacherib tell us the four initial stages of the great campaign in the conquest of Phoenicia, of Askelon, and of Ekron, the defeat of the Egyptians at Altaqu, and the earlier hostilities against Hezekiah.
In 1595, we find Raleigh bent on a discovery which had long been a feverish dream with him--the conquest of the fabled El Dorado.
The Spaniards," says Southey, "lost more men in seeking for this imaginary kingdom than in the conquest of Mexico and Peru.
His arguments for immediately attempting the conquest of Guiana were not regarded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conquest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
