Japan Tobacco's acquisition of Gallaher, its British equivalent, was one of many recent overseas conquests: last year the value of outbound M&A from Japan exceeded that of the bubble years of 1990 and 2000 (see chart 10).
The listings describe the holding, who owned the land before the Conquest, its value, what the tax assessment was, and usually the number of peasants, ploughs, and any other resources the holding had.
Were they simply, as is often claimed, a community committed to aggression and conquest, built on the values of military success and little else?
But I learned there were other countries beyond my own and that the borders between our country and others had been artificially drawn by war, conquest and negotiation — not by the value of creating relationships among people.
The almost effortless British conquest of Egypt in 1882 is believed to have demonstrated the value of his reforms.
Unlike George Orwell, who quickly fastened on the evils of empire when he served there in the colonial police force (and recounted that experience in the novel "Burmese Days"), Scott was a quintessential Victorian, a true believer imbued with the values of conquest and curiosity, "a natural imperialist," as Marshall puts it, "who was instrumental in imposing British colonial rule in Upper Burma".
After Alexander the Great's conquest, the Ptolemies held it.
In 640 AD, as a result of the Tang Dynasty conquest, the Western States were established.
Following the Ottoman conquest, the city population changed.
The conquest of the plateau peoples by the French and their subsequent assimilation of Western values have deprived them of most of their traditional institutions.
