Sentence examples for western conquest from inspiring English sources

To pre-empt charges of western conquest, the force should consist solely of Muslim nations: Turkey, joined perhaps by Morocco, Bangladesh and Jordan - with any US presence minimal and in the background.

The western conquests began in 533, as Justinian sent his general Belisarius to reclaim the former province of Africa from the Vandals who had been in control since 429 with their capital at Carthage.

Western world conquest began in the fifteenth century and peaked in 1939, when seven European nations had jurisdiction over almost a third of the world's population.

The conquest of western New Britain secured Allied control of the Vitiaz and Dampier straits between that island and New Guinea.

Harpagus remained an important military figure under Cyrus, undertaking among other efforts the conquest of western Asia Minor.

From the German perspective, with the conquest of western Europe complete, knocking Britain out of the war by attacking its trade seemed a manageable objective.

"In this field nothing is provable," Quinlan wrote, "but it is far from clear that they would regard less than half of 1% of their population as an unthinkable price for contemplating a conquest of western Europe".

There were no further Muslim invasions of Frankish territory, and Charles's victory has often been regarded as decisive for world history, since it preserved western Europe from Muslim conquest and Islāmization.

Western businesses benefited from conquest: during the mid-19th-century Opium Wars with China, governments supported the drug-smuggling activities of firms like Jardine Matheson.Messrs Neal and Williamson have compiled a thoughtful account of capitalism.

In 640 AD, as a result of the Tang Dynasty conquest, the Western States were established.

The towns of San Marcos and San Pedro Sacatepéquez were founded soon after the conquest of western Guatemala.