7 sentences with “justified”

Thus, their conquests were justified by their religious beliefs, as well as by a direct desire for dominance.

Christianity was at the heart of scholarship and learning for centuries. It also justified the aggressive expansion of European kingdoms.

Greeks in the Hellenistic kingdoms felt that they were the heirs to Alexander's conquests and were therefore justified in occupying most, if not all, positions of political power.

Moreover, ideological developments such as the rise of social Darwinism and the obsession with race inspired Europeans to see their conquests as morally justified, even necessary.

However, when the "barbarians" seized the territory, Roman writers were rarely justified in mentioning it, as it was assumed that the territory could and should be reclaimed when it was convenient for Rome.

A powerful institutional relationship emerged between the rulers and the magi (the Zoroastrian priesthood) in which Sassanid rule was justified by the direct and unequivocal support of the religious power structure.

Rousseau's concept of a moralistic and fanatical government, justified by a "general will" of the people, was to become one of the ideological foundations of the French Revolution that began just a decade after his death.