Most Europeans continued to fear the Ottoman army as they had two centuries earlier, and, although its ability was reduced, it remained strong enough to prevent the provincial rebels from assuming complete control and even to make a few more significant conquests in both East and West.
The destruction brought about by Genghis Khan survives in popular memory, but far more significant, these conquests were but the first stage of the Mongol Empire, the greatest continental empire of medieval and modern times.
The changes that made Peter's reign the most seminal in Russian history were not the administrative reforms and the military conquests, significant as those were, but the transformation in the country's culture and style of life, at least among the service nobility.
The Taliban control at least 80percentt of Afghanistan, and recent victories have meant significant gains toward completing their conquest of the nation.
Indeed, as a proportion of total population, this is the most significant invasion since the Norman Conquest in 1066.
The omission of the church may not be significant, as not all pre-Conquest churches or chapels were recorded in the Domesday survey.
In general, conquest is not as significant an issue in international politics as it once was, because territorial expansion is no longer a common ambition among states.
A lightweight, air-cooled engine, Dr. Pisano and Dr. van der Linden said, "was the most significant technological breakthrough that would ensure the eventual conquest of the Atlantic Ocean by air".
The Anglo-Norman manorial system was introduced into Wales after the conquest of 1282, but nucleated villages became significant only in the eastern and southern peripheries of the country, where physical and political conditions favoured their development.
The last significant figure associated with the vernacular Bible before the Norman Conquest was the so-called Aelfric the Grammarian (c. 955 1020).
