Sentences with phrase «after conquest»

Anglo French did not appear in legal documents until 1275, more than 200 years after the conquest.

To lighten the eyes in the darkness, to remove the melancholy, to comfort the weakness of the heart and to bring joy and magnitude; these are soothing properties attributed to gold by a Spanish goldsmith, half a century after the conquest of New Spain.However, when Hernán Cortés told Montezuma that he and his fellow conquerors were suffering from a heart disease that only gold could cure, was he referring to that same weakness?

Once an area replete with Mayan cities and thriving trade from the coast of Xcalak, the Costa Maya was taken over by the Spanish after the conquest.

The walls were so well built that the Spanish used them for the foundations of their buildings after the conquest.

«Up to 90 % of native South Americans died very quickly» after the conquest, mostly from epidemic disease, he says.

In spite of an economic decline after conquest and incorporation into the Aztec Empire, commoners in both urban and rural settings still enjoyed access to a wide range of imported goods.

Examples of this are found in some of the Egyptian people who joined with Israel at the Exodus (Exod 12:38), Rahab siding with the Israelite spies against her own people and then becoming one of the Israelites after their conquest of Jericho (Josh 6:22 - 23), and the Gibeonites choosing to be servants of Israel rather than face annihilation (Josh 9:9).

In honor of a national culture that has survived conquest after conquest and rather amazingly still thrives today, Hungarians this year are celebrating, not the future, but their distinguished past, with a huge assemblage of artistic events» concerts, operas, art shows, ballets» all under the title «Farewell to the XXth Century.»

The indulgent and merciful character of the Prophet, which he had always shown, was clear to all the people of Mecca after this conquest when, without repressive action or loss of life, he generously pardoned all his former persecutors.

The conversion and submission of the whole Arab peninsula came soon after the conquest of Mecca, but in the northern part of the peninsula the Romans (Byzantines) prepared themselves for a strong attack against the young religion.

Taking slaves after a conquest used to be considered right as well, but we would consider that horrible now.

@Rainer Braendlein you know those verses out of context, you can do that with the Bible too and that's why the Bible has been used to justify slavery, white supremacy, conquest after conquest, and the white man's burden in Africa

The Romans were usually tolerant in religion but they sometimes persecuted Christians (a religion that arose in an occupied territory (Judea), a sect of a religion (Judaism) that the Romans had allowed to stay after their conquest].

After the conquests by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C., the ensuing domination by the Ptolemies and the Seleucids, and the conquest by Rome under Pompey in 63 B.C. with the annexation of the land as a Roman province, the dream persisted.

Not exact matches

One after another, the phrases depict Islam, its writings and leaders, as violent and bent on conquest.

The fact is, the land any nation possesses today is the result of conquest, often after changing hands many times after many different conquests.

After listing Charlemagne's previous conquests as evidence of his power, he introduces the main theme with a rhetorical question: «Under these conditions, was it not to be expected» that the king should add a more general title commensurate with his authority?

Jesus spoke of both Hell and Judgement, and told his disciples to arm themselves for defence (not conquest) after He was gone.

Events of great consequence for the world took place in these centuries: the fall of the Persian empire; the conquests of Alexander the Great and their dissolution after his death; the long struggles between the Greek dynasties of Syria and of Egypt; and the advance of Rome as residuary legatee of them all.

Don Schenk is correct to disbelieve stories» told by presidents or others» of Jerusalem's streets running with blood to knee level after the Crusader conquest of 1099.

It seems probable that the author of the Book of Jonah applied it to the resurrection of the Israelite nation after its submergence by the Babylonian conquest.

Islam was and is all about conquest and submission... in the 8th century Muslims invaded Iberian peninsula — barely a century after Mohammed's death and were finally driven out in the late 15th century (and people focus on the Christian Crusades - funny).

Glooskap, the mightiest warrior of all, returns home after a lengthy period of conquests, only to be defeated by the mighty Wasis, a creature on the floor of his home.

In the distant past, they believed, the great God had revealed himself to Moses and the prophets; he had acted in the deliverance of Israel from Egypt and the restoration after the Babylonian conquest.

Now over twenty - five years after Dr. Fosdick's remarkable book, we are even more deeply troubled about this conquest.

In Spanish America after the first wave of conquest had spent itself, and in the Philippines from the very start, missions were regularly employed as a means of extending the frontier.

In the Spanish and Portuguese possessions, after the first wave of conquest, it was through benevolent Christian missions that the frontier of white settlement moved forward.

This «Cyrus» guy could've had another birth name which was smoooged after his «conquest», whatever «conquest» that might have been...

After a while I found it so hard to become Jew like I thought it was going to be a long road in my conquest to becoming the «perfect» Christian.

The Athenians themselves nearly undertook a similar action when faced with Persian conquest, and the Romans nearly abandoned Rome for Veii after its sack by the Gauls.

But he did one thing right — he transported chile seeds back to Europe after his first voyage, which began the chile conquest of the rest of the world.

After the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, chocolate was imported to Europe.

BY all accounts, the jubilant atmosphere in the Motherwell dressing room after this commanding conquest was so electric, the National...

The name is of Old German origin but became popular in English after the Norman conquest of England in 1066.

These include the belief that there will be only 12 legitimate caliphs, and Baghdadi is the eighth; that the armies of Rome will mass to meet the armies of Islam in northern Syria; and that Islam's final showdown with an anti-Messiah will occur in Jerusalem after a period of renewed Islamic conquest.

Until recently, scholars believed that the khipu tradition died out in the Andes soon after the Spanish conquest in 1532, lingering only in the simple cords made by herders to keep track of their flocks.

Such an increase in rare variation is presumably due to a high birth rate of the settlers and the genetic isolation from France, with limited exchange with other non-French communities in the same geographical area, since emigration virtually stopped after 1759, just before the English conquest.

DNA of 500 - year - old bacteria is first direct evidence of an epidemic — one of humanity's deadliest — that occurred after Spanish conquest.

As the empire grew, so did the land, expanding much faster after the Spanish conquest in 1521.

It was when Fred Willard, after an off - screen ménage à quatre, grimaced, farted loudly, and pulled the blanket over the heads of his recent sexual conquests, yelling, «Dutch oven!»

There are your traditional online modes, such conquest and team deathmatch, and after playing these modes I had some time to play some Escalation mode which is a 4 - player «horde - like» co-op mode.

They feel it's high time for him to mature, especially after he brought his latest conquest (Chantel Jeffries) along on a blind date.

I first became a fan after seeing her in the brilliant «Norman Conquests,» three intertwined plays by Alan Ayckbourn.

He lived through the Qing dynasty, the early republican years, the northern conquest [by the government against warlords], the fight against the Japanese [during WWII] and finally the exodus to Hong Kong [during and after the Chinese civil war between 1945 and 1949].

His men, anachronistically called «knights» (knights won't actually become a thing for another 500 years or so, after the Norman conquest; this is an example of an acceptable anachronism, especially since the Arthurian legends, composed in the age of chivalry, have already imposed knighthood on the historical story (if there was one, more about that later)-RRB- are Sarmatians, drafted into Imperial service as part of a 3rd Century surrender agreement between their people and the Empire (not historical: the Sarmatians remained a power in the Ukraine and Balkan regions through the end of the Western Empire, though there is a theory that the Arthurian legends are influenced by or even sourced in, similar Sarmatian stories (notably one about a lady with a sword in a lake), the influence purported to have come from a community of Sarmatian veterans in Lancashire).

We learned that after the Spanish conquest, painters from Europe, educated local artists to make the same religious paintings in the new churches.

Their building is attributed to King Lalibela who set out to construct in the 12th century a «New Jerusalem», after Muslim conquests halted Christian pilgrimages to the holy Land.

After the Spanish conquest of the region it became one of the last Inca holdouts, with its main temple left unfinished.

Spinalónga was one of three offshore citadels retained by the Venetians until 1715, after the 1669 Ottoman conquest of Crete.

In contrast to the violent and bloody campaigns to subdue the island, the Dutch colonial administration after Bali conquest can only be described as benign, even enlightened.