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13 sentences with 'conquered'

Example sentences and phrases with the word conquered and other words derived from it.


• « The actress, with her beauty and talent, conquered Hollywood in the blink of an eye. »
conquered: The actress, with her beauty and talent, conquered Hollywood in the blink of an eye.
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• « The Romans were very successful in assimilating the peoples they conquered. »
• « Like Sargon, King Ur-Nammu conquered and united most of the city-states of Mesopotamia. »
• « By 1500 BC, only 50 years after the founding of the new kingdom, Egypt had conquered Canaan and much of Syria. It then conquered northern Nubia. »
• « Their pantheon of gods grew each time they conquered a new city-state or tribe, and they translated various tales and legends into their own language. »
• « The pharaohs sent communities of Egyptians to colonise the conquered lands, both to pacify those lands and to exploit the natural resources in order to increase royal revenues. »
• « When the Assyrian Empire expanded beyond Mesopotamia, it first conquered Israel, and then finally destroyed it completely when the Israelites rose up against them (this occurred in 722 BCE). »
• « The New Kingdom of Egypt conquered more territory than any previous Egyptian empire. It was able to do so in part because of its mastery of bronze manufacture and the effectiveness of its armies as a result. »
• « Sargon appointed governors in his conquered cities, and his entire empire was designed to extract wealth from all his cities and farmlands and pump it back to the capital of Akkad, which he built somewhere near present-day Baghdad. »
• « The Romans, for example, extended the practice of thermalism to all the territories they conquered. Around the steaming wells they erected sumptuous buildings and created the famous baths of Nero, Titus, Caracalla and Diocletian, among others. »
• « Eventually (from 1225 BC onwards), Assyria led a brief period of conquest that conquered Babylon and the Kassites, going on to rule a united Mesopotamia before being forced to retreat against the backdrop of a wider collapse of the Bronze Age political and commercial network. »
• « Nor was there ever a united Greek empire: there was a great Greek civilisation when Alexander the Great conquered what he thought was most of the world, stretching from Greece itself through Egypt, the Middle East, to western India, but it collapsed into warring kingdoms after his death. »
• « 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. »

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