Following the brief Latin conquest of Constantinople (1204 ce), Páros was subject to Venice, becoming in 1389 an independent duchy.
Xerxes went on to invade Greece, starting a brief period of Persian conquest in Europe.
"It was a long 12-year odyssey, punctuated by brief episodes of great discovery and conquest.
While neither leader mentioned Agincourt, Trafalgar or Waterloo, or French victories that included the Norman Conquest in 1066, both stirred a brief whiff of the troubled history of Anglo-French relations into the mood of general bonhomie.
Dawkins later posted a third tweet with a link to his devastating Prospect magazine review of Wilson's 2012 book The Social Conquest of Earth, which he described as "a brief account of EO Wilson's misunderstanding of kin selection theory".
By the middle of the 3rd century, Parthia, Bactria, and Sogdiana had gained their independence; the conquest of Coele Syria Lebanon and Palestinene by Antiochus III (200) and a brief occupation of Armenia made up to some extent for the loss of much of Anatolia to the Romans.
Following the conquest of Madurai by Malik Kafur in 1311, there was a brief lull when both culture and civilization began to deteriorate.
The history of life on earth has been punctuated by numerous mass extinctions, brief periods in which the diversity of life is considerably diminished, followed by episodes of re-conquest of the fauna and flora.
A brief opening sequence summarizes their three-month romance as they fall, fondle and separate, he to pursue a new conquest, she to explore a new city.
