"conquests" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to successes or victories, usually in battles, wars, or other competitions. For example: Alexander the Great was renowned for his many conquests in battle.
The satirical poet Dmitry Bykov even penned verses comparing the effects of war, propaganda and tub-thumping patriotism on the Russian currency and a penis: as the latter gets harder and more excited with Russia's conquests, the former falls to new lows.
Female students find themselves treated as conquests by men on nights out.
Combined with the development of shipping transportation, the west became intrepid explorers of the world, developed a world-view of racial superiority, which led it to achieve military and economic conquests that resulted in transatlantic slavery and colonialism.
Blair becomes one of Wendi's first official social conquests, in her developing role both as Murdoch social emissary and social power player.
Aside from cash-strapped young people, tequila in Mexico has traditionally conjured up images of moustachioed rancheros boasting of conquests, or sobbing over treacherous women.
If she is democratic, if she cooperates in the new international order, if she restores her unjust conquests, it will be to our interests at the end of this war (as we can now see that it was to our interest in 1918) to help her to unity, equality, wealth and self-respect.
These ranged from the conquests of Pompey, who about 130 years earlier had turned Judea into a vassal kingdom, to the final Jewish revolts that broke out at the start of the second century.The consequences of these battles were felt all over the Roman empire.
The Han empire proceeded to administer the area around modern Pyongyang for nearly 400 years.Memories of such early conquests inspired later Chinese rulers.
The Palestinans suspect that this is an approach that suits Mr Sharon, since it allows him time to consolidate Israel's present conquests into a longer-term interim occupation.
Muhammad's conquests Arabised huge swathes of the Middle East and North Africa, but even where the language did not take root as a native language, the importance of the Arabic Koran remains.
"It keeps management on their toes," says a former chairman of one of Mr Peltz's conquests.
