While other ethnic groups faced conquest and forced inclusion in the Burmese state as taing yin thar, the Rohingya were cast out of the Burmese identity altogether.
It involved imperial conquests, ethnic cleansing and many minor and two major wars - involving the murder and displacement of countless millions.
Many coincide with territorial boundaries or mark the site of historical events, from the Spanish conquest to ethnic wars.
After all, territorial conquest and ethnic engineering helped form the Balkans' modern states in the wars of the late 19th and early 20th century, and western powers then seemed happy to egg their various proxies on.
In a surprising twist of the Polish-German relationship, which for centuries had been dominated by war, conquest and ethnic cleansing, some Poles have now come to settle among their less-well-off German neighbors.
This was achieved through a large-scale campaign of territorial conquest and ethnic cleansing which was backed by military and financial support from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Most of the legends are about their conquests of the surrounding ethnic minorities known as the Man,Yi, Rong and Di barbarians.The Yellow Emperor had defeated Chiyou and the Yan Emperor, in what is now Hubei Province.
The ethnic Tuareg rebels who initially led the conquest have been sidelined.
In the new, cosmopolitan ideology that followed Alexander's conquests, the old nationalistic and ethnic boundaries had broken down and the problem of religious and social identity had become acute.
In the case of Mexicans, the largest ethnic group in the US, the historical roots of conquest and colonialism continue to remain institutionalized in the American society, culture, and mentality.
