In the middle of this period, through a process of conquest, consolidation and treaty, the boundaries of Scotland were gradually extended from a small area under direct control of the kings of Alba in the east, to almost its modern borders.
Mexico went through a similar process of conquest and colonial formation, and suffers its own lasting ordeals.
The process of Hellenization that began with Alexander's conquest accelerated under Roman rule, and by the early centuries AD the local Anatolian languages and cultures had become extinct, being largely replaced by ancient Greek language and culture.
While the encomienda colonial labour-supply system was in the process of being established, slave raids became a part of the cycle of conquest.
The processes of border raids, wars of conquest, and civil strife, which affected the Ndongo and then the kingdoms of the Kwango River valley in the 17th century, were repeated to the south and east in the course of the 18th century as the slave frontier expanded.
In reality, however, globalization is a continuation of a broad process that started with the age of conquest and colonialism in the South and the enclosures and the Industrial Revolution in the North.
Roman Days: The Age of Conquest.
"The futility of conquest in business mirrors the futility of conquest in war," he writes.
The history of pasta is also the history of conquest.
