In the north, descendants of early Mande conquerors occupy territory in the northwest, stretching into northern Guinea and Mali. |
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The challenge of dislodging the conquerors would be extreme and casualties massive. |
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Until 1773, at about the time the Spanish conquerors arrived, Antigua had been the capital of Guatemala. |
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Many Spanish conquerors were fooled by depletion gilded tumbaga, believing it to be gold. |
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Babur may have been descended from brutal conquerors, but he was not a barbarian bent on loot and plunder. |
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As harnessers of power, both have evoked great awe and admiration as human conquerors of nature. |
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History is replete with overextended conquerors, who suffered from invincibility complexes, ultimately becoming conquered themselves. |
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In previous centuries, conquerors were known to pillage, loot, rape and burn. |
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As for the new conquerors and settlers, unlike the Normans in England, they did not succeed in appropriating the native past, and, as far as we know, made no attempt to do so. |
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And where was this magical land of Khorasan, whence the conquerors would come? |
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Now they are the undefeated winners of Group D, conquerors of Greece, and the latest quarterfinalists. |
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After Japan invaded the Korean Peninsula in 1905, the conquerors sought to co-opt local pride to reinforce Japanese hegemony. |
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Arabic encroached gradually, spreading through the areas most accessible to migrants and conquerors, but Berber remained the mother tongue in many rural areas. |
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Nobody remains untransformed by this contact, not displaced Native Americans, not enslaved Africans, and not even the apparent conquerors, the European colonists. |
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The scale and rapidity of the German advance into Russia, coming on top of earlier conquests, posed obvious administrative problems for the conquerors. |
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This Gascony vinedom, whose first cultivators were Gauls working under their Roman conquerors, comprises five distinctive districts. |
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See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors. |
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And many would-be conquerors have managed to finagle bits and pieces. |
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First, the Roman conquerors of Jerusalem added tomato sauce, cheese, olive oil, herbs and spices to soft and chewy matzohs. |
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He also studies world conquerors like Ghenghis Khan and Attila the Hun, who showed no mercy or remorse to their enemies. |
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Unlike the individual arches erected for Roman conquerors, Renaissance rulers often built a row of arches through which processions were staged. |
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Indeed, the inhabitants of Constantinople continued to refer to themselves as Romans, as did their eventual conquerors in 1453, the Ottomans. |
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Rome, for so long victorious against its enemies, was now at the mercy of its foreign conquerors. |
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These decrees, equally applicable to Franks and Romans, first established equality between conquerors and conquered. |
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During the Renaissance, Italy became an even more attractive prize to foreign conquerors. |
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They were second cousins born in Extremadura, where many of the Spanish conquerors were born. |
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Famous and renowned Spanish conquerors, administrators, settlers, have now been confirmed to have been of Sephardi origin. |
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A small contingent of the expedition remained at Veracruz, while the main body of conquerors moved inland. |
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The conquerors set off to the rest of the empire, founding cities and overpowering their people. |
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The Spanish conquerors commented on the impressive nature of the local and regional markets in the 15th century. |
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Political, social, and economic phases of life, both among the natives and their conquerors, are treated. |
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The region's dialect owes much of its grammar and vocabulary to the Nordic influences of its conquerors. |
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Like many Latin American countries, the Spanish conquerors have had the most effect on both the culture and the literature. |
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It always ends in the ruin of many small capitalists, whose capitals partly pass into the hands of their conquerors, partly vanish. |
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South India has remained relatively unscathed by waves of northern conquerors, and the essential Dravidian culture that defines India has remained almost untouched. |
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By doing so, Europeans could cherish a rather unambiguously heroic image of themselves as conquerors or righteous civilisers of the non-Western world. |
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Kassite conquerors terminated the Babylonian era at the turn of the second millennium BC and introduced a bronze age characterised by relative cultural stagnation. |
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Almost nothing was left of the Inca civilizations after the conquest by the Spanish, as culture was not as significant as gold to the new conquerors. |
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Smallpox also ravaged Mexico in the 1520s, killing 150,000 in Tenochtitlan alone, including the emperor, and Peru in the 1530s, aiding the European conquerors. |
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In the 730s the Arab conquerors of Spain, who had also subjugated Septimania, began advancing northwards into central Francia and the Loire valley. |
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