Sentence examples for conquest began from inspiring English sources

The French conquest began in earnest only in 1899.

The Frankish conquest began, then, a period of slow change rather than rupture; certainly, there was less rupture than with the Lombard conquest in 568.

German conquest began with the capture by the German king Henry I the Fowler (reigned 919 936) of Branibor (Brennabor, or Brennaburg), capital of the Slavic Havelli.

Western world conquest began in the fifteenth century and peaked in 1939, when seven European nations had jurisdiction over almost a third of the world's population.

A new wave of Ottoman conquest began in 1521, after which a good portion of Croatia was conquered or pillaged.

The Maya occupied a territory that is now incorporated into the modern countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador; the conquest began in the early 16th century and is generally considered to have ended in 1697.

In November 1937, at a secret meeting of his military leaders, Hitler outlined his plans for future conquest (beginning with Austria and Czechoslovakia).

This burden was complicated by the ethnic, linguistic, and legal divisions between the populations brought under Frankish domination in the course of three centuries of conquest, beginning with the reign of the first Merovingian king, Clovis (481 511).

Let the conquest begin this November.

Once the rebels had been subdued, Abu Bakr began a war of conquest, beginning with Iraq.

The native people of Mexico experienced an epidemic disease in the wake of European conquest, beginning with the smallpox epidemic of 1519 to 1520 when 5 million to 8 million people perished.