Through his extraordinarily vivid speeches and writing, he brought alive for European readers the colonialism, slavery, rapaciousness and ecological devastation he found in the Americas, making the conquest of much of the New World public, exotic but also shameful.
Powell's solos flash mercurial wonder (they'd be even more audacious in his 1947 recordings), and Dorham's tone, with its eggshell fragility, makes the conquest of self-affirming complexity all the more heroic.
For better or worse, the Orthodox Christians of Byzantium refused in the end to make the doctrinal compromises with the West which might have won them military support against the advancing Turks, and this made the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans, in 1453, inevitable.
This made the conquest of the West possible.
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.
In spite of Alcibiades's enthusiastic advocacy for the plan, it was Nicias, not he, who turned a modest undertaking into a massive campaign and made the conquest of Sicily seem possible and safe.
That's actually more glorious than it sounds, because it was only the Persians' ability to build such good roads - a new technology at the time - that made the conquest possible.
In his 1852 address at the opening of the Athenaeum in Richmond, Va., the Rev. John Robertson spoke of "the piratical Saxons" as "mere barbarians" whose "ignorance" had made the Norman Conquest all but inevitable.
What makes the Mets' conquest of the Cardinals all the more impressive was that it occurred immediately after the Cardinals vanquished the Atlanta Braves in three quick and easy steps.
Moreover, as this change occurred prior to the Arab invasion of Sicily in AD 827, the environmental processes may help to explain the collapse of Byzantine society on Sicily which, in turn made the Muslim conquest possible.
