Sentences with phrase «with military conquests»

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The game of dominating the world's resources, nation - states and alliances is like a combination of Go and chess, with the threat of military conquest or defeat always hovering over the statecraft and financial game.

To his readers, who as Gentiles had been taught to eulogize Caesar as divine and to view Caesar's and Rome's military conquests as «good news,» or who, with Jewish contemporaries, had concluded that the prophetic voice had been stilled — to them Luke writes of another source of good news: the story of Jesus, and he declares that the word of God is still to be heard: it had come to John.

The War of the Sons of Light with the Sons of Darkness is a plan for the conquest of the world by the Sons of Light; it is the Mein Kampf of the Dead Sea generalissimo, who describes the future in a way faintly reminiscent of the entrance of Israel into Canaan but more clearly based on Roman military organization, procedure and strategy.

For someone who'd only read about military conquest in history textbooks, Steven Spielberg's World War II painted the missing horrors and chaos of war with his opening D - Day sequence on the beaches of Normandy.

Games about oriental military conquests with faint historical accuracy where you can choose dozens of over-the-top warriors to magic - murder the hell out of thousands of soldiers and officers, while only hitting a two to three different buttons during hours of gameplay?

Explorers and Emperors alike will find a completely randomized American continent added to their game, including features such as trading with the natives, establishing colonies, and new options for military conquest.

Founded around 1701 with wealth derived primarily from the gold trade with North Africa and Europe, the Asante kingdom expanded through military conquest to become a powerful and dazzling polity in West Africa.

Michael Parker's The Ides begins with the triumphal arch — an architectural form commemorating military conquest that was first constructed during the Roman Empire and later replicated in various neoclassical structures.

At the outset of the War of 1812, Tecumseh and his followers hoped that allying with Great Britain would help the Aboriginal Confederacy counter American threats to absorb Aboriginal territory through military conquest, removal and relocation or forced assimilation.

The process in which this occurs, through military conquest or more gradually through commerce and trade, is something I'm far more concerned with than retaining any monopoly on the only language I speak fluently.