9 sentences with 'conquer'
Example sentences and phrases with the word conquer and other words derived from it.
• « After World War I, Ford would conquer such dominance in the automobile market that half of the world's cars would be Model T's. »
• « The Mesopotamians were the first to conquer and rule many different cities and "peoples" at once. »
• « Cities fought each other for territory, captives and wealth, but rarely managed to conquer other cities completely. »
• « The first time a single military leader managed to conquer and unite many of the cities of Mesopotamia was around 2340 BC, when King Sargon the Great, also known as Sargon of Akkad, conquered almost all the major cities of Mesopotamia and forged the world's first true empire, in the process uniting the regions of Akkad and Sumer. »
• « This precariousness was responsible for the fact that these early empires were not particularly durable and could not conquer territory outside Mesopotamia itself. »
• « The Assyrians were the first empire in the history of the world to systematically conquer almost all of its neighbours with a powerful standing army and to control the conquered territory for hundreds of years. »
• « The period of political breakdown in Mesopotamia following the collapse of the Bronze Age ended around 880 BC when the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II began a series of wars to conquer Mesopotamia and Canaan. »
• « Each time the Greeks were victorious, the Persians eventually decided to abandon the attempt to conquer Greece as too costly. »