Sentence examples for waves of conquest from inspiring English sources

His people have been subject to successive waves of conquest and dispossession, first by the Inca, then by the Spanish.

After complex waves of conquest by peoples from the north and east had swept over the area, the Chinese again conquered it during the late 7th and early 8th centuries under the Tang dynasty (618 907), but it was always on the farthest frontier of Chinese control.

The initial, sudden wave of conquest gave way to peace and to what is sometimes called the Pax Mongolica — the Mongol peace — a long period of stability, rising prosperity and cooperation.

A new wave of Ottoman conquest began in 1521, after which a good portion of Croatia was conquered or pillaged.

The Afghan example would show that this is perhaps the only choice that would allow Obama to both keep his promise not to renew the war in Iraq and at the same time roll back the seemingly unstoppable wave of ISIS conquests.

The Battle of Yarmouk is regarded as one of the most decisive battles in military history, and it marked the first great wave of Islamic conquests after the death of Muhammad, heralding the rapid advance of Islam into the then Christian Levant.

"They are symbols of conquest.

Roman Days: The Age of Conquest.

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"The futility of conquest in business mirrors the futility of conquest in war," he writes.

This is not just a region of conquest; it is a region of unrelenting conquest.