The chiefly clans in some cases claimed their position by virtue of ancient military conquest and in others by virtue of being the first to occupy the land.
The ancient Italic tribes that once inhabited the region long resisted conquest and retained their own character even after Roman rule was imposed on them.
Power to the people is a worldwide revolutionary slogan advancing democracy, but presupposes a more ancient meaning: the prehistoric conquest of every other vertebrate on earth.
Their homeland is predominantly Muslim, close to the Silk Road with an ancient history of culture and conquest by Ghengis Khan and Tamberlaine the Great.
The entire exchange recalled an ancient era of alliance and conquest, when a warrior's word was law and the long knives were carried in the open.
Their homeland is predominantly Muslim, close to the Silk Road with an ancient history of culture and conquest by Genghis Khan and Tamburlaine the Great.
How human populations worldwide moved and aggregated in geographic and social spaces in periods of pre-history, ancient history, invasion, war and conquest, colonization, urbanization, and ethnic assimilation.
The impact of Israel's conquest of the ancient part of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War remains in sharp contrast to the unplanned, almost offhand, nature of the conquest itself.
The diversity of this region — a triangle of flat land that extends along the southeastern coast of India — is testament to an ancient history of migration, imperial conquest and seaborne commerce.
Among many of Iraq's hard-line Sunni Arab leaders, and still more so among Sunni insurgent groups, the Shiite leaders' ties to Iran are a trigger for hostility and suspicions that trace back far beyond the Iran-Iraq war, to ancient history and the Persian conquest of Mesopotamia.
