Even though, by then, the early Arab conquests had broken up into several rival empires, many technical achievements came the way of the Muslims. |
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The Rig Veda is a collection of hymns praising the gods and glorifying the conquests and the heroics of the aristocratic Aryan cult. |
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Promoted to the general staff of the Austrian Army in 1809, he led the conquests of Croatia, Istria and the Po region. |
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They might have lost Spain, but the Ottoman conquests in Europe had far exceeded anything the crusaders had gained in the East. |
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From Mexico, the spread of viticulture followed swiftly on the heels of Spanish conquests. |
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The mares of the stallion's subsequent conquests and their foals will fall into line accordingly. |
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He had to resign over his apparent condonation of Mussolini's conquests in the Abyssinian War. |
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There he meets Anna and her Pomeranian, and sees a fine opportunity to add to his considerable roster of empty conquests. |
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His conquests have surprised many, largely because of his unprepossessing appearance. |
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Thus, your adventures take on a mythical quality and your romances aren't just conquests, they're heart-touching encounters. |
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Let us do what the Vikings did for their departed ones and raise giant mugs of mead and bellow songs of warrior conquests! |
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His need for continual sexual conquests is undoubtedly a result of rejecting the fractured family unit that created him. |
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The Norman dynasty is famous for its martial accomplishment, its aggression and, of course, its conquests. |
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I learned this from classmates bragging about their amorous conquests of the night before. |
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During the Cold War, anti-communists dreamed of rolling back the tide of Soviet conquests but were constrained by the threat of nuclear war. |
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Those magnificent men in the Maroon, those glorious memories, and those vignettes from the past of stirring feats and heady conquests. |
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Under Othman, the third Caliph who belonged to the aristocratic Ummayid branch of Mohammed's tribe Quraysh, the conquests ceased briefly. |
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The wine loosens his tongue and he begins to boast of his conquests of women at shady resorts. |
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The reliefs in the temple tell the story of the queen's divine birth,, her conquests and achievements. |
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While their migrations often were due primarily to a lack of pasturage, military and political conquests shaped the way of life in the new lands. |
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He is in a fitful mood which is compounded by an outburst at the table by a maid, who has obviously become one of his many conquests. |
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Yet even in England the principles of the Code and the Pandects made silent conquests. |
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For example, let's see some equal time given to the sexual conquests of young females at the box office. |
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He didn't want his friends knowing about his drunken mother's tears or his philandering father's many conquests. |
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He was a strong leader, whose conquests expand the Moghul Empire to its greatest size. |
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Russian conquests in Asia were certainly no less brutal than those of any other expanding imperial power. |
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But even that trio of conquests didn't satisfy his rampaging appetite. He also embarked on a much-publicised affair with an actress. |
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They literally carried their conquests from the gulf of St. Lawrence to the gulf of Mexico. |
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He claimed all the land as far west as the North Island tribes' conquests had extended. |
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The conquests were for the motive of sway, involving massive slaughter as the obverse politics of claim. |
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He added new lands to old and carefully consolidated his conquests by founding Greek cities abroad. |
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Ok so this is fact and many of us bear the marks of those conquests but now answer this question. |
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Venetia would be given to the Habsburgs, shorn of a number of outlying territories which would consolidate French conquests further west. |
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Early in his stay in Madrid, a notorious star-chaser glibly informed the Spanish media that the new arrival would be the latest in her series of celebrity conquests. |
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His only priority should be the future wellbeing of the country and its people of all cultures, ages and wealth, not the battered and bruised egos of past conquests. |
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Due in part to his dearth of footballing talent, he lived vicariously through the campaigns and conquests of his schoolmates and friends of greater sporting capacity. |
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Kennedy disliked having girlfriends, preferring one-off conquests instead, but made an exception for Mary Meyer. |
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Before the Arab conquests, Berber was the chief spoken language. |
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Consolidation of such conquests by wise and intelligent administration is, on the other hand, a quiet affair and rarely engages our serious attention. |
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She is cast as a mid-50-year-old mother of one of his potential conquests. |
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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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I shall not dwell on ancient history, on the conquests of that part of the world by the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Arabs, the Crusaders. |
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As the amorous side of your life goes up and down, you forage in the laundry basket of love, reselecting old flames instead of dusting yourself down and seeking new conquests. |
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We, like his various conquests, were seduced by his facade of invincibility and haunted past. |
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In a matter of minutes, he gave a shameless, amped up account of his various Hollywood conquests. |
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In content, Soucek concentrates on the political narrative of conquests, rulers, and dynasties, along with brief profiles of a few literary and religious figures. |
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The beauty of this is that Italy cannot stab Russia effectively, not being able to bring fleets to bear against the southern conquests of the Russian empire. |
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But though the conquests brought riches, they also brought grave problems. |
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It was filled with murderous conquests, hate, rebellions, and revolutions. |
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These surveys helped the Spanish monarchy to govern these overseas conquests more effectively. |
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Again, the main conquests of Portuguese territory would follow after the end of the war. |
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These conquests complicated the migration of the aggressive nomadic hordes from Asia to Europe through Volga. |
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Upon returning to Qashliq, Yermak decided to inform the Stroganovs and the tsar of his conquests. |
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The Mongol invasions and conquests in the 13th century also resulted in taking numerous captives into slavery. |
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His successors, most notably Aurangzeb, expanded the number of subahs further through their conquests. |
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The Great Wall was also expanded, while series of military conquests and diplomatic maneuvers further pacified its borders. |
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It was introduced as the official language with the Tudor and Cromwellian conquests. |
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In 197 BC, the Romans decisively defeated Philip at the Battle of Cynoscephalae, and Philip was forced to give up his recent Greek conquests. |
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The Seleucids sued for peace, and Rome forced them to give up their recent Greek conquests. |
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Following various military conquests in the Greek East, Romans adapted a number of Greek educational precepts to their own fledgling system. |
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This victory postponed Danish conquests in England for fifteen years, but raids on Wessex continued. |
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Charles succeeded in returning to France, but all his conquests and booty were lost. |
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These movements and conquests are part of a larger pattern of population expansion and resettlement that occurred in Europe at this time. |
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After the end of the period of conquests, it was necessary to manage extensive and different territories with a strong bureaucracy. |
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Hadrian withdrew all the troops stationed in Parthia and Mesopotamia, abandoning Trajan's conquests. |
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Danish and Norman conquests were just the manner in which God punished his sinful people and the fate of great empires. |
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The conquests also helped solidify Charles's rule by providing the state treasury with enormous amounts of bullion. |
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It was designed to unite and consolidate the conquests of the Roman people, whether within or without the limits of Italy proper. |
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He then defeats the Picts and Scots before creating an Arthurian empire through his conquests of Ireland, Iceland and the Orkney Islands. |
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Besides the Norman conquest of England and the subsequent conquests of Wales and Ireland, the Normans expanded into other areas. |
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France lost all its recent conquests, while Prussia, Austria and Russia made major territorial gains. |
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This syndicate soon evolved into the Bank of England, eventually financing the wars of the Duke of Marlborough and later Imperial conquests. |
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As a consequence of Alexander's conquests, koine Greek had become the shared language around the eastern Mediterranean and into Asia Minor. |
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The extent of the adoption is subject to ongoing debate, as the native languages were certainly spoken after the conquests. |
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Llywelyn's allies in south Wales were given back lands taken from them by the Marshalls and Llywelyn himself gave up his conquests in Shropshire. |
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They had to fight hard to consolidate their conquests, and in 74 AD they built an auxiliary fortress at Penydarren, overlooking the River Taff. |
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His successors did attempt the conquests of Parthia and Germania, but without lasting results. |
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Classical Greece entered the Hellenistic period with the rise of Macedon and the conquests of Alexander the Great. |
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War began in earnest in spring 1940 with the successful Blitzkrieg conquests of Denmark, Norway, the Low Countries, and France. |
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This kingship changed from Franks to Saxons, who had suffered greatly during the conquests of Charlemagne. |
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Caesar provides his account of the Druids as a means of sharing his knowledge and educating the Roman people on the foreign conquests. |
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Pirenne held that the Roman Empire continued, in the Frankish realms, up until the time of the Arab conquests in the 7th century. |
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These conquests disrupted Mediterranean trade routes leading to a decline in the European economy. |
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Alexander the Great exploited this military foundation further during his conquests. |
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On the other hand, concessions allowed the Crown to guide the Companies conquests to certain territories, depending on their interests. |
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Over the course of his conquests, Alexander founded some twenty cities that bore his name, most of them east of the Tigris. |
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The core of the Hellenistic culture promulgated by the conquests was essentially Athenian. |
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These conquests were lost in the reign of Roger's successor William, however, and never formed an integral part of the kingdom in southern Italy. |
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These costly invasions and conquests and the introduction of paper currency caused inflation. |
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Ban Chao expanded his conquests across the Pamirs to the shores of the Caspian Sea and the borders of Parthia. |
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After these conquests, the Tang dynasty fully controlled the Xiyu, which was the strategic location astride the Silk Road. |
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Such maps also enabled military conquests and made them more efficient, and imperial nations further used them to put their conquests on display. |
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The Alexander romance, a fabulous account of Alexander the Great's conquests, was especially influential in this regard. |
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This environmental factor protected its people from conquests by the Mande and other African empires. |
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In the reign of his grandfather John I, Ceuta had been conquered from the king of Morocco, and now the new king wanted to expand the conquests. |
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Forced to resolve a Sanhaja civil war, he left control of the Moroccan conquests to his brother, Yusuf ibn Tashufin. |
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He offered to write an epic work giving an account of John II accomplishments in navigation and conquests. |
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Pizarro was named governor and captain of all conquests in Peru, or New Castile, as the Spanish now called the land. |
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Following the Spanish conquests, new ethnic groups were created, primary among them the Mestizo. |
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Land acquired from these conquests was to be held by the three cities together. |
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These conquests provided the new empire with a large influx of tribute, especially agricultural goods. |
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Ahuitzotl then began a new wave of conquests including the Oaxaca Valley and the Soconusco Coast. |
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Moctezuma continued to govern his empire and even undertook conquests of new territory during the Spaniards' stay at Tenochtitlan. |
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At the time of Spanish conquests, Mexico City comprised both Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco. |
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It saw Richard Burton as a lady killer who murdered his conquests. |
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There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids. |
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Southwards, his conquests ignited several conflicts with expansionist Turkey, whose territories were thus confined to the Balkans and the Black Sea regions. |
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Ayutthaya launched several abortive conquests against Malacca which was diplomatically and economically fortified by the military support of Ming China. |
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In 1514, he served as ambassador from king Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X, leading a luxurious embassy presenting in Rome the new conquests of Portugal. |
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Following Roman rule, there were successive conquests of the Roman province of Hispania Baetica by the Vandals, the Suebi and the Visigoths during the 5th and 6th centuries. |
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This trade route was somewhat less efficient and only rose to great prominence when there was turmoil in the west such as during the Almohad conquests. |
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Venice achieved territorial conquests along the Adriatic Sea. |
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By the time of his death at the age of 58, Roger had succeeded in uniting all the Norman conquests in Italy into one kingdom with a strong centralized government. |
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This river thus marks the easternmost extent of Alexander's conquests. |
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The Plague of Justinian and the Arab conquests would represent a substantial reversal of fortunes contributing to a period of stagnation and decline. |
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The legacy of Clovis's conquests, a Frankish kingdom that included most of Roman Gaul and parts of western Germany, survived long after his death. |
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Fearful that Belisarius might set himself up a permanent kingship should he consolidate his conquests, Justinian recalled him to Constantinople with Witiges in tow. |
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Also in 1492, the Christopher Columbus maritime expedition claimed the newly found lands in the Americas for the Crown of Castile and began the New World conquests. |
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Due to the conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea. |
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Alexander the Great conquered Egypt at an early stage of his conquests. |
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The end of the war in Europe left the Soviet Union in control over large areas of Central and Southeastern Europe, in addition to its 1941 conquests in Eastern Europe. |
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This treaty confirmed him in possession of all his recent conquests. |
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In return, it confirmed Llywelyn's possession of his conquests and allowed cases relating to lands claimed by Llywelyn to be heard under Welsh law. |
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Henry did not invade Gwynedd again and Owain was able to regain his eastern conquests, recapturing Rhuddlan castle in 1167 after a siege of three months. |
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Ultimately, at the end of the campaign, Owain was forced to come to terms with Henry, being obliged to surrender Rhuddlan and other conquests in the east. |
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While King Henry III of England had accepted Dafydd's claim to rule Gwynedd, he was not disposed to allow him to retain his father's conquests outside Gwynedd. |
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The sense of urgently righting wrongs reflects the leaders' desires to avoid unfavorable consequences, which in this case included social unrest and further conquests. |
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France's only net gains were the island of Tobago in the Caribbean and Senegal in Africa, after agreeing to return all other colonial conquests to British sovereignty. |
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By the 490s, Clovis I had conquered and united all these territories in the southern Netherlands in one Frankish kingdom, and from there continued his conquests into Gaul. |
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He united the four regions into a single state through a series of conquests beginning in 1902 with the capture of Riyadh, the ancestral home of his family, the House of Saud. |
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Only in the Roman Empire, when the conquests stopped and the prices of slaves increased, did hired labor become more economical than slave ownership. |
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These conquests were part of the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate. |
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All these wars resulted in Rome's first overseas conquests, of Sicily, Hispania and Africa and the rise of Rome as a significant imperial power and began the end of democracy. |
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The Romans secured their conquests by founding Roman colonies in strategic areas, thereby establishing stable control over the region of Italy they had conquered. |
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They facilitated everyday transportation across seas and waterways, exploration of new lands, raids, conquests, and trade with neighbouring cultures. |
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The crusaders consolidated their conquests into crusader states. |
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His admirers say that Napoleon wanted to stop now, but was forced to continue in order to gain greater security from the countries that refused to accept his conquests. |
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The British wanted to retain their overseas conquests and have Hanover restored to George III in exchange for accepting French conquests on the continent. |
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A series of wars with Great Britain and other European major powers during the 18th century and early 19th century resulted in France losing nearly all of its conquests. |
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As the Ottomans' victories in the Balkans multiplied, increasing numbers of Anatolian warriors flocked to their ranks, and their territorial conquests grew. |
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Kathryn's co-conspirator is step-sibling Sebastian, who'll stoop to putting naked pictures of his conquests on the internet if it suits his devilish purposes. |
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