Sentence examples for at the conquest from inspiring English sources
At the conquest of Mecca, when Mohamed helped destroy the idols housed in the sanctuary of the Kaaba, he preserved an icon of the Virgin and child, as well as a painting of Abraham.
But near Tours, in 732CE, Charles Martel, Charlemagne's grandfather, defeated the forces of al-Andalus, and this decisive battle effectively ended the Arab attempts at the conquest of Frankish Europe.
The second of the "illustrious generation," comprising the sons of John I and Philippa of Lancaster, Pedro was present at the conquest of Ceuta from the Muslims in 1415 and later traveled abroad in Europe, encouraging his younger brother Henry the Navigator in his discoveries.
The doctrines of yoga might be aimed at the conquest of the self, but the practice of getting there, the feeling of belonging, of believing for a moment that you are fresh and new and recreated, exactly matched the promise of fashion itself.
It's political privileged position lasted through time, even during the social changes that occured in late periods and also at the conquest.
At the conquest, with the introduction of the Latin alphabet, Nahuatl also became a literary language, and many chronicles, grammars, works of poetry, administrative documents and codices were written in it during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Siyah K'ak' appears to have been aided by a powerful political faction at Tikal itself; roughly at the time of the conquest, a group of Teotihuacan natives were apparently residing near the Lost World complex.
After announcing that we achieved the level of technology required for interstellar space travel, a somber narrator says at the beginning: "And so at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space".
At the time of the conquest the Puruhá were an agricultural people cultivating corn (maize), beans, squash, and potatoes.
In the countryside, social relations underwent greater change over a short period than at any time since the conquest.
