Quotes About Conquest

The whole of the Middle East, up to the River Tigris, was returned to Roman rule.

Philip was ideally suited to lead the expedition against the Persian 'barbarians'.

And the trophy itself consisted of precisely three hundred captured suits of armour.

Heraclius entered Jerusalem on 21 March 630, at the head of a solemn procession

To make an example of them, Alexander had them sent back to Macedonia in chains

Of the Melian population the Athenians executed all the grown men

Philip won the day. As many as half the Athenians and Thebans were either killed or taken prisoner.

burst westwards and southwards towards Europe and the settled lands of the Middle East.

and broke through the undefended Balkans to devastate all of mainland Greece north of the Peloponnese.

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

In early April, while the big guns were busy pounding the land walls, Mehmet began to deploy the fleet, his other new weapon, for the first time.

Pagaliau mes per?m?me pasaul? ? savo rankas, ir kiekvienas apverstas tankas atrod? kaip parblokšto dievo griau?iai.

On a universal scale the civilized were the colonizers and the uncivilized were the colonized.

Genghis Khan's 'arrow messengers' could travel 450 kilometers a day.

Only the hammer blow of revolution, that is to say, the conquest of political power by the proletariat can break down [the] wall [between capitalist society and Socialist society].

Joseph Smith and the early Mormons had tried their best to murder all Indians in their path across the country, but in the end did not quite succeed. Arthur V. Watkins decided to use the power of his office to finish what the prophet had started. He didn't even have to get his hands bloody.

How could Indians hold themselves apart, when the vanquishers sometimes held their arms out, to crush them to their hearts, with something like love?

His generation would have to define themselves. Who was an Indian? What? Who, who, who? And how? How should being an Indian relate to this country that had conquered and was trying in every way possible to absorb them?

Like every state in our country, Minnesota began with blood dispossession and enslavement.

To the Victor, the Potatoes!

discontented inhabitants who willingly admit a foreign power either through excessive ambition or through fear, as was the case with the Etolians, who admitted the Romans into Greece. So it was with every province that the Romans entered: they were brought in by the inhabitants themselves.

no one should marvel at the ease with which Alexander [the Great] kept possession of Asia, or at the difficulties which others, like Pyrrhus and many more, had in preserving their conquests. The difference does not arise from the greater or lesser ability of the conqueror, but from dissimilarities in the conquered lands.

Montezuma's speech was not his surrender; it was his acceptance of a Spanish surrender.

The slow darkening of the murals as you look from right to left. It seems somehow to symbolise the gradual imposition of the Spaniards' conquering will upon the Indians. Do you see what I mean?