In the next half century Asunción played a major part in the conquest and settlement of northern Argentina.
Such resistance helped postpone European conquest and settlement of the Americas for 500 years.
By discovery, conquest, and settlement, these nations expanded and colonized throughout the world, spreading European institutions and culture.
In modern history, in both North America and northern Asia, natural waterways directed the lines of exploration, conquest, and settlement.
The European discovery, conquest, and settlement of the Americas, which began in 1492, created enormous changes in the indigenous cultures of the region.
Similarly ambiguous, Mr. Levine writes, is the evidence of the conquest and settlement of Canaan, the ancient name for the area including Israel.
"Conquest and settlement of the West in the 19th century inevitably meant destruction of native peoples and their ways of life," reads one label.
The term indigenous peoples is often used to refer to those native inhabitants who were dispossessed of their land by outside peoples, either by conquest, occupation, settlement, or some combination of the three.
His settler allies, moreover, have developed a messianic theology based on a fundamentalist reading of the Bible which sets the conquest and settlement of the land above all else and promises direct divine succour to achieve them.
Philip's reign saw the final conquest and settlement of Mexico and Peru, of the Yucatan, of Chile, the uncertain and ultimately abortive conquest of Florida, the conquest of much of what is now Paraguay, and finally, in 1580, the conquest of what were called, in honour of their new ruler, Las Islas Filipinas – the Philippines.
