Sentence examples for conquests were made from inspiring English sources

On the military front, the Flavian dynasty witnessed the siege and destruction of Jerusalem by Titus in 70, following the failed Jewish rebellion of 66. Substantial conquests were made in Great Britain under command of Gnaeus Julius Agricola between 77 and 83, while Domitian was unable to procure a decisive victory against King Decebalus in the war against the Dacians.

He believed that the Manchu conquest was made possible by faulty government and education, which had rendered China easy prey to alien conquerors.

The conquest was made easier by divisions among the Orthodox peoples and by the even deeper rift between the Western and Eastern Christians.

Bartering, that precapitalist form of commerce popular in Indian villages in Latin America even long after the Spanish conquest, is making a far-reaching comeback in Argentina as an improbable safety net for a forlorn middle class not accustomed to the hardships that are a way of life elsewhere in the region.

Although some repairs were made following the Byzantine conquest of North Africa in the 6th century, Tipasa remained largely neglected until the modern village was founded in 1857.

Though the US-backed Free Syrian Army is fighting Assad, major recent gains were made by the so-called Army of Conquest, backed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Most of the works on view were made between the 7th and 16th centuries, before the Spanish conquest of Peru.

After the Russian conquest, Kutaisi was made a provincial seat.

It was also an act directed at some of the people who, in his mind, were making the conquest possible: liberals or, more specifically, the Labor Party.

Following the Norman conquest of England, Chadderton was made a constituent manor of the wider Royal Estate of Tottington, an extensive fee held by the Norman overlord, Roger de Montbegon.

The conquest of the highlands was made difficult by the many independent polities in the region, rather than one powerful enemy to be defeated as was the case in central Mexico.