Pride in imperial feats was offset by reminders of the abuses that also accompanied 350 years of conquest and rule.
Delegates' reaction to Rabbani's role as High Peace Council head was so ferocious that he was forced to flee Few thought they would do it until they did, firing fusillade after fusillade into two giant statues of the Buddha that had weathered 1,500 turbulent years of conquest and chaos, but could not withstand the Taliban's tanks.
In these years of conquest and conversion at the point of the sword, Leo is for Davis the equivalent of "Jewish marrano or a Morisco converso: persons forced to convert or conform to one religion while inwardly holding to and even clandestinely practising their old faith".
In the early years of conquest, encomienda rights effectively meant rights to pillage and round up slaves, usually in the form of a group of mounted conquistadores launching a lightning slave raid upon an unsuspecting population centre.
It's built upon thousands of years of conquests: first of the British Isles, with the Romans, Saxons, Normans, etc., and then by the British themselves, within their own borders and across the globe.
Syrian cuisine has evolved over thousands of years of conquests, trading and migrations, shaped and blended by dozens of peoples: Arab, Kurdish, Druze, Armenian, Circassian, Assyrian, Alawite, Turkish, Turkmen, Palestinian, Ismaili, Greek, Jewish, Yazidi.
The Taliban's six-year war of conquest -- to which Mr. bin Laden contributes a small but not insignificant Arab force -- has developed into a brutal fight where no quarter is given to Afghans who oppose Mullah Omar's prophet-like pretensions.
Even in the first, violent years of their conquest, the Ottomans seldom touched monasteries, where relics, icons, books, and other cultural treasures were zealously guarded.
The native population of the northeastern portion of the peninsula was almost completely eliminated within fifty years of the conquest.
The spiraling consequences of several hundred years of ignorance, conquest, and violence remain still in the culture, in the mind, and in the politics of the land.
