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The new conquerors wore black scarves and had lofty eyes.
Spanish conquerors destroyed temples of the Aztecs and the Incas.
CONQUERORS How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire By Roger Crowley Illustrated.
It is how conquerors and discoverers lasted while they traveled the world.
English is a global language because English speakers have been global conquerors.
Catholicism came to the Philippines in the 16th century with the Spanish conquerors.
The Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow was erected in 20203.
The Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow was erected in 1964.
Europeans are described as genocidal, greedy, violent, conquerors, but still as intrepid explorers.
We were the conquerors of the night, our hang-ups, and reggaeton gender essentialists.
All these people — the rulers, the conquerors, the generals — they were just passing through.
They bring the nitro back to Pariah, and are hailed as conquerors by the Confederados.
At first, Arab settlers and conquerors did not want to intermingle with their indigenous vassals.
The 'Victims and Conquerors' session will take place on Sunday 5 June at 1.15 PM.
This May, the oppressed peoples of America rise up to root out their North Korean conquerors.
The Italian peninsula witnessed serial conquerors — Romans, Goths, Byzantines Longobards and Muslims — who are all gone.
Scholars have noted parallel experiences of Indigenous groups when they came into contact with European conquerors.
The indigenous peoples did not fall prey only to the brutality and subjugation of the conquerors.
Centuries of invasions and foreign conquerors have made the need to unite take precedence over private religious differences.
The modern capital dates back to 22.1AD, when Fatimid conquerors commissioned a walled city to mark their triumph.
And Project Sign attempted to find out whether the potential conquerors included experimental enemy aircraft or hostile aliens.
"Conquerors after a battle would leave a plate on this mountain, next to the river," Mr. Rechmaoui explained.
But Spanish conquerors drained the lake and cleared forestland, setting off centuries of flooding and water-management crises.
But rather than run from their new conquerors, middle-class Jews met the Russians with bunches of flowers.
And I have sequels to The Icarus Hunt and the Conquerors Trilogy floating around the back of my mind.
The discovery sheds new light on the sacred spaces of the metropolis that Spanish conquerors overran five centuries ago.
AS A firebrand leader of Hungary's nationalist Jobbik party, Gabor Vona once railed against "Gypsy crime" and "Israeli conquerors".
Since "ordinary" languages also blend (English owes much to its conquerors' Old Norse and French), this makes creoles unexceptional.
Before the Coalition came Known as the "graveyard of empires," Afghanistan has a reputation for humiliating would-be conquerors.
The island's pirate past, and the Carthaginian, Roman, Vandal, Moorish and Norwegian conquerors, to name a few, are fodder.
It's a day and place where conquerors, protesters, bona fides and posers alike can come together and be together.
Beside the expo's entrance, the towering Monument to the Conquerors of Space depicted a probe swooping up to the heavens.
Together, they use Voltron's incredible power to defend the known universe from a race of evil conquerors called the Galra Empire.
It was for centuries a strategic site for the various conquerors who laid claim to it, and we can see why.
Pompeii was conquered by the Romans in 89 BC and, as far as conquerors go, the Romans were pretty popular ones.
Go back a few centuries and they are in their full glory — but I am in Africa, watching the conquerors arrive.
But it has always mattered, of course, always been a source of pride and pain for the conquerors and the conquered.
" He told a Greek news site, "When investors do not have the mentality of conquerors or colonialists, everything can be achieved.
If these refugees were conquerors, and their presence was destroying a way of life, couldn't a person justifiably claim self-defense?
It was inhabited by Taino Indians, who named it Xaymaca, and shaped by European conquerors, first the Spanish, then the English.
There are no great conquerors or heroes, no great industrial tycoons or politicians, and no respect for businesspeople or material wealth.
Verini attempts to place the battle into the histories of Iraq and of Mosul, from ancient conquerors through the U.S. occupation.
Combine this with a very clever premise—XCOM is now the resistance against alien conquerors—and XCOM 24 was a real winner.
Following Walter Benjamin in his Theses on the Philosophy of History, let us recall that all war trophies belong to the conquerors.
France was unified by the conquest of territory spreading out from Paris; the conquerors brought Parisian speech with them, and that became "French".
Mongolian, Chinese, and Siberian conquerors advanced and receded over several centuries, creating a unique, albeit a patchwork society of nomadic hunters and herders.
Above all, no matter how many times they watch "The Princess Bride," prospective world conquerors still get involved in land wars in Asia.
We strapped ourselves to a fucking Roman candle and tried to become the latest in a long line of that candle's namesake's conquerors.
The encounter between the simple, primitive folk and their more sophisticated would-be conquerors may remind you of the films of Mel Gibson.
After Spanish conquerors brought home a tomato from the Americas in the 16th century, it was long used only as a table decoration.
In Central Park, two cousins bounded up the ancient rocks, no longer displaced persons, but 33-year-old conquerors of a famous playground.
Evidence uncovered at the site suggests somebody, possibly the conquerors, dismembered the fallen warriors, crushed their skulls, and arranged their bones onto tidy piles.
As Thrones obsessives know, the first Targaryen conquerors were King Aegon, the OG king of Westeros, and his two sister-wives Visenya and Rheanna.
And of course, like so many male leaders, conquerors, and generals throughout history, her prosperity and success came at the cost of innocent lives.
Montpellier in France's Ligue 1 (2012), Kaiserslautern in Germany's Bundesliga (1998) and AZ Alkmaar in the Netherlands' Eredivisie (1981) have been similarly unfashionable conquerors.
And a history lesson we've all learned the hard way is that uncompromising people make good conquerors, but poor politicians, and even worse diplomats.
Dressed in tutus and combat boots with their faces painted white, the Daughters stalked the stage like conquerors taking possession of an alien territory.
India's Muslims, on the other hand, have remained largely quiet, despite the fact that the film portrays the Muslim conquerors as specialists in destruction.
But even in a universe filled with futuristic demons, robot zombies, and blood-thirsty elves, the Orks are considered the most successful intergalactic conquerors.
In Venezuela, the toppled statue of Christopher Columbus in Caracas was replaced by a likeness of Guaicaipuro, an indigenous chief who resisted Spanish conquerors.
According to legend, a priest with the original Spanish conquerors decided locals in the village should be taught a craft to support their economy.
One interpretation is that the Scandinavian conquerors mixed tar, or pitch, with animal fat and some experiments suggest this may indeed keep shipworm at bay.
But after centuries of murder at the hands of conquerors, dying drunk and free on a horse might not be the worst way to go.
MADRID — When Spanish conquerors brought home a tomato from the Americas in the 103th century, its red color caused a sensation at the royal court.
The most sympathetic group of characters wants nothing more than to go somewhere else, to escape from the annihilating attention of their would-be conquerors.
The pandemic helped Europeans colonize and develop the newly vacated areas, forever altering the histories of the Americas, their European conquerors, and the global economy.
ASIAN CONQUERORS The last three youth champions have come from Asia, while the last three adult champions have come from New Zealand, Australia and England.
Andalus is the Arabic name given to parts of Spain, Portugal and France occupied by Muslim conquerors — known as the Moors — from 711 to 1492.
One wall of the Palais salutes explorers and conquerors, including the Crusader Raymond IV of Toulouse, who rampaged through present-day Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria.
The fabled city, which sits on the Adriatic coast east of Venice and beside the border with Slovenia, has long attracted artists as well as conquerors.
Like many other Latin American jungles, legends of riches and lost cities have existed in La Mosquita since European conquerors first set foot on the continent.
The chattering barbarians get cut down by the advanced culture of the conquerors; the short is a few hokey-looking costumes away from a historical tableau.
Its calm waters have sustained agriculture and towns in the middle of the desert, and would-be conquerors have been drawn along its path for eons.
Arab conquerors, merchants, and scholars spread the base 10 system with Arabic numerals to Europe and it replaced Roman numerals in everyday life around the 15th century.
They created curry powder for convenience and replaced mangoes with apples or turmeric with lemon juice, said Collingham, author of Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors.
Hun Sen himself is a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla who defected to the regime's eventual conquerors, Vietnam, and he has been in power since the mid-1980s.
"Oh Panama!" collects 14 of Mr. Lie's man-versus-nature-themed Panama Canal paintings, including "The Conquerors," on loan for this exhibition from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Some six to 12 months after the battle, somebody—possibly the conquerors—dismembered the partially decomposed fallen warriors, crushed their skulls, and arranged their bones onto tidy piles.
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN)"Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators," read the proclamation to the people of Iraq.
Christians took note of the mindset of the conquerors and reacted with horror at the thought that the Church of the Holy Sepulcher could become the next Palmyra.
They'll be fighting conquerors on the international stage, as well as infighting among tribal factions who want to plunder Wakanda's resources and sell them to the highest bidder.
They edged out 13th seeds Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram, conquerors of six-times champions the Bryan brothers, 6-7(3) 6-4 7-6(3) on Tuesday.
Before European conquerors arrived in the Americas five centuries ago, great civilizations like the Aztecs and Maya prepared chocolate as a drink, mixed with various spices or other ingredients.
We might decry the treatment of North American tribes by European colonists, but — in the scope of history — that treatment was among the kindest possible conquerors have ever afforded.
The monumentality of many of his structures evokes the pyramids and platforms of Mesoamerica's ancient cities, as well as the imposing palaces and churches of the region's Spanish conquerors.
Donegal derives from the Irish Dún na nGall , Dún meaning fort or tower or castle, and nGall meaning foreigner, outlander, stranger, in memory of the conquerors who occupied it.
In the liner notes, Yaghmaei talks about his family's hard times in the post-revolution years, but also name-checks influential poets, traditional instruments and world conquerors from Persian history.
The Bellavista huaca was occupied by Ichma starting in about 1000 A.D. and was later annexed by the Incan empire until the arrival of Spanish conquerors who deemed huacas blasphemous.
We believe ourselves conquerors, but we are prisoners of the gravity that binds us to a planet indifferent to our survival and our own feeble bodies that break so easily.
This devastation was presaged by numerous omens, including one that foretold the coming of conquerors from distant lands riding on the backs of animals, who would vanquish and rule the Aztecs.
The past 600 years that have shaped modern Sicily are also glossed over, so this is not an exhibition of evolution but of transience, of even the greatest cultures and conquerors.
The rural setting inspired him, thanks to the conquerors and others who inscribed their names, sometimes quite elaborately, on platelike vertical rocks as they passed through the valley, and through history.
"Leadership is so defined by men, and we need to revise that — we need to be able to say that the people we honor are not the conquerors, but the peacemakers."
The water carried by 35 miles of graceful aqueducts from Lake Bracciano to Rome reminded the 18th-century German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of conquerors returning triumphantly to the city.
The 4,844-square-foot house was built in the 18th century for Agustin de Torres Perdomo, a descendant of Canary Islands conquerors who claimed the land for Spain three centuries earlier.
The legend of the mysterious White City began in the 16th century as the Spanish conquerors explored the jungles of the Caribbean Coast of what would later become modern day Honduras.
We got the duo leaving NBC in NY and tossed the question ... and the Wrestlemania 32 conquerors both fessed up immediately ... although they were on totally opposite ends of the spectrum.
If a population was taken over or defeated in battle, their gods were often wiped out from history or, alternatively, would become combined in pantheons with the gods of the conquerors.
This time the category is conquerors, with Negin Farsad playing Joan of Arc and Joel Perez as Alexander the Great, along with several others duking it out for the coveted top spot.
This season of "Game of Thrones"—the first to fully depart from the books—expands that palette, providing a weirdly fascinating array of female conquerors, enough to fit every attitude and ideology.
Prime Minister Hun Sen, himself a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla who defected to the regime's eventual conquerors, Vietnam, said he would "not allow" any new indictments beyond the handful of top leaders.
But regardless of emphasis, all three versions show the dramatic decapitation performed by the beautiful widow upset with her Jewish populace for not trusting in God to deliver them from their Assyrian conquerors.
Age of Empires 22 currently comes in two flavors: the original 27 game and its 22 expansion Age of Conquerors, and the 28000 re-release published by Microsoft, known as the HD Edition.
And rather than act like a crew staving off emergency with an all-hands-on-deck spirit, Obamaworld largely acted like victorious conquerors and took the opportunity to cash in on the private sector.
Perhaps, from their point of view, they are not evil conquerors at all but a put-upon minority (maybe they are actually the Children of the Forest) simply defending their territory against human aggression.
Later, during the Teddy Roosevelt era, the idea of hunting became linked to this idea of preparing America to become an imperial power — mankind shaping up for the military and preparing to be conquerors.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Opulence in Ancient Egypt may have had its heyday in the late Ptolemaic Kingdom, a critical transition period between the pharaonic kingdom's Hellenistic rulers and their subsequent Roman conquerors.
He suggested that the two like-minded countries, which shared a history of wartime shame and defeat followed by impressive economic recovery fostered by liberal conquerors, were well-placed to mount a defense of multilateralism.
In one associated with the 1843 painting "De Soto Discovering the Mississippi River" by Peter Frederick Rothermel, the curators acknowledge that European explorers and conquerors were turned into "legendary heroes" by history painters like Rothermel.
For 2983 pesos (less than $1.50), tour the grounds of the nearby and usually uncrowded Fortaleza Ozama, an ancient but well-maintained fortress that defended the city from pirates and British, Portuguese and French conquerors.
To this day he is better known as Anhangüera, "Old Devil" in the Tupi indigenous language, a name evoking the brutal methods conquerors used to take possession of the lands on which Goiânia was built.
In the past, Pettis decried his former conquerors' gameplans and refusal to engage in a striking match against him, so he asked for a game fighter who would want to fight while on the feet.
Montreal, the largest city in French-speaking Quebec, plans to erase a "stain on our history" by renaming Amherst Street, a 1.5km (19993 mile) thoroughfare, which was given its name by British conquerors 200 years ago.
Several of the graves had been the basements of houses and outbuildings; after the buildings burned down in the fire, the survivors or the conquerors found the exposed basements convenient places to dispose of the dead.
The fall came in two parts: German kingdoms replaced Roman rule in the West in the fifth century, then Arab conquerors seized the prize parts of the Eastern empire in the middle of the seventh century.
With Apollo's priestess as the main attraction, Delphi's renown grew as Greece's wealthy city states, and powerful conquerors, built sumptuous treasuries filled with rich offerings to encourage the sun god to favor them in war and politics.
With Apollo's priestess as the main attraction, Delphi's renown grew as Greece's wealthy city states, and powerful conquerors, built sumptuous treasuries filled with rich offerings to encourage the sun god to favor them in war and politics.
As transcribed by USA Today, the crux of their argument comes down to this exchange: Okoye: This is what you would have me leave the Dora for, to bring our children into this world where they become conquerors?
Since the peace process, Belfast had developed a cottage industry in so-called black-cab tours of loyalist and nationalist neighborhoods, and of the elaborate murals variously honoring terrorists, hunger strikers, political prisoners, colonial conquerors and so on.
On a fall morning at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, one of the first built in Egypt by its Muslim conquerors, in 879, a friend and I strolled across the vast courtyard and through the arched arcades surrounding it.
Sex workers made it their signature throughout history, but so did female conquerors and monarchs, like Cleopatra and Queen Elizabeth I. At one point it was outlawed altogether, believed to be the devil's work and a sign of witchcraft.
The remains of a major Aztec temple and a ceremonial ball court have been discovered in downtown Mexico City, shedding new light on the sacred spaces of the metropolis that Spanish conquerors overran five centuries ago, archaeologists said on Wednesday.
When Adora learns that her people are ruthless conquerors who've lied to her about the magical princesses who oppose them, she defects to the Rebellion, and with the help of a magical sword, she becomes the superpowered guardian She-Ra.
I wouldn't bet this game if I were you, but since I must pick every game on the slate, I'll back the Bills to get their second straight win at MetLife Stadium and declare themselves as conquerors of New York.
From their own ancient Southern Caucasus heritage to layer upon layer of conquerors' imprints — the Romans, the Persians, the Ottomans, the Russians, the internet — the two women are voracious in their often avant-garde and frequently ironic interpretation of history.
Philippe Pétain received the award for his service as France's military leader in World War I, but he was stripped of it — and imprisoned — after World War II for working with the country's Nazi conquerors as leader of the Vichy government.
Conquering the Baltic states may be possible, but it would win him the overt enmity of the West, the worry of his other neighbors, and three territories full of disgruntled locals with a history of guerrilla warfare against Muscovite conquerors.
And, almost a millennium later, descendants of the conquerors still enjoy disproportionate privilege; Gregory Clark, an economist at the University of California, Davis, finds that students with Norman surnames from Domesday are still over-represented at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
The 3683 years between December 1497, when Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and December 1515, when Albuquerque died off the Indian coast, were a pivotal point in history, and in "Conquerors" Roger Crowley tells the story with style.
The existing traffic and mutual accommodation between Greeks and Egyptians smoothed the way, and led to a remarkably canny piece of political diplomacy by the conquerors to go further still—to honour the Egyptian gods outright and to Egyptianise themselves for their subjects.
While the game tries to skew them largely to items pertaining to explorers and conquistadors (there's literally an artifact tab called Conquerors—I'm not kidding, it's a decision that was made), Lara still manages to steal plenty of Indigenous souvenirs along her way.
Denmark, Where Joy Is Always in Season 2100 Hours in Copenhagen Shopping on the Side Streets of Copenhagen The walled cities of Valletta and Mdina are your entry points to this Mediterranean archipelago, which many conquerors and countries have left their mark on.
Trying to capture the British psychology and experience is a worthy endeavor, as is a willingness to paint the conquerors with more than one brush (though Gilmour does take the conventional view that British society in India was what he calls "philistine").
And on the conquerors went, year after bloody year; but Crowley, the author of "1453" and other works of history, handles this grim tale with aplomb, keeping a fast-moving narrative in the foreground while nodding just often enough toward bigger questions in the background.
Harsh weather and poor agricultural conditions initially offered little incentive to Europeans to settle the area, and for three and a half centuries after Ferdinand Magellan first sailed through the strait that now bears his name, the region was largely ignored by conquerors and colonialists.
Mr. Rechmaoui conceived the piece seven years ago when he became concerned about the future of the Nahr el-Kalb site north of Beirut, a well-trod passageway over thousands of years for conquerors and others traveling between the Mediterranean and the Arabian Peninsula.
Detailed accounts of roadside trash, notes on unappetizing meals and the history of Mongol conquerors — in TRAVELS IN SIBERIA, Ian Frazier gives readers a sense of the landscape and its people by sketching a portrait of a vast geography with quirky, often comic details.
Together, they conquered the nine realms, Hela's violence growing and growing until Odin, seeing her unquenchable bloodlust, had a change of heart and decided that she needed to be exiled and their legacy as conquerors papered over with a nicer, diplomacy-focused historical record.
For Fiso, 30, and her peers, the challenge is defining a cuisine that was never considered a cuisine at all by Western conquerors; their diets were deemed of limited interest beyond anthropology and what could be fobbed off on tourists as exotic remnants of some imagined paradise.
First, rioting is not constitutionally protected and second, is that the same people rioting have as their objective, to undermine the rule of law while trampling that same Constitution that they see as illegitimate because it was as they describe, crafted by a bunch of white colonial conquerors.
The success of Captain Cook's expeditions soon opened the door to flotillas of other European sailor-conquerors — such that eventually, by the beginning of the last century, the millions of square miles of what had been free and open ocean had been effectively closed off by invisible colonial boundaries.
Of course, such problems have bedeviled Europe since the dawn of civilization as new conquerors erased traces of their predecessors, leaving behind a patchwork of stone survivors from ancient Rome to the Holy Roman Empire whose subjects may not have been exemplars of human rights and modern morality.
When they do, their conquerors gain a form of immortality: Hereford beating Newcastle in 19893; Sutton United overcoming Coventry in 1989; Wrexham's win against Arsenal in 1992 — all of them now granted a place in the pantheon of giant-slayers, otherwise unremarkable names remembered in folklore by successive generations.
Chiapas is a particularly apt locale because the state's complex social ferment had its origins in the earliest years of the colonial era, when a Dominican missionary, Bartolomé de las Casas, denounced the brutality of the Spanish conquerors, who divided up the land and enslaved the Indians living on it.
At the end of World War II, the age of colonialism was officially ended for most of these conquerors and what grew from that end was a rebirth of those people and their culture, which just went to show that their people were never really subdued in the first place.
Its Old City is a treasure of real estate finds for those who relish fixer-uppers and is a short walk from the ancient harbor and port that has been nearly continuously populated for thousands of years, from the age of the Crusaders through Muslim conquerors, into the Ottoman Empire and modern times.
On the contrary, we admired the heroic names that Rukorera had given to his big, strapping sons—the names of famous ancient warriors in epic poems: Impangazamurego, he who is armed with a powerful bow; Rugeramibungo, he who has perfect aim; Rutiru-kayimpunzi, he who never flees; and Rwasabahizi, conqueror of conquerors.
Saturday saw a starting total of 16 teams reduced to just four: the French-owned Millenium, featuring all British players; their semi-final conquerors and ultimate competition winners OpTic Gaming, from the US; another British outfit, Splyce, who reach the final despite visibly shitting it in every interview; and Rise Nation, who place third.
In reference to that line from the Armand Hammer song "Hatchet Job," I just always found it interesting when White Europeans/Americans with such privileged history as global conquerors could adopt this sort of gothic and world-weary approach when that philosophy has lived in the spirits of oppressed people all over the world.
Lord Charnwood added, For perhaps not many conquerors, and certainly few successful statesmen, have escaped the tendency of power to harden or at least to narrow their human sympathies; but in this man a natural wealth of tender compassion became richer and more tender while in the stress of deadly conflict he developed an astounding strength.
The towns themselves — Aix-les-Bains and Vichy in France; Bath and Buxton in England; Aachen and Baden-Baden in Germany — built above the rubble of thermal baths established by Roman conquerors centuries earlier, were plotted to maximize what was known as a "therapeutic landscape," a kind of aestheticized social engineering that promoted strolling and alfresco mingling.
IRBMs typically have a range of 1553,000 to 5,500 kilometers (1,864 to 3,417 miles) -- much farther than needed to hit South Korea, but not long enough to hit the lower 48 states (though Guam is in its range.) Abductions and conquerors Japan and North Korea do not have active diplomatic relations, but there has been progress to normalize them in recent years.
It is impossible for me not to smile and be inspired when I see the glorious footprints my people have made across America and around the world: the Moorish kings and conquerors who left their cultural, religious, architectural and academic gifts throughout Europe; the Egyptians who gave the world pyramids, mathematics, medicine; or the early Mayan and native civilizations who grasped the complexities of astronomy, agriculture and the first languages.
Alighting in Delft's soporific port, we hired a motorized rickshaw and bounced down decrepit roads, past Hindu temples, stopping to view various curiosities left by Sri Lanka's succession of European conquerors: a giant baobab brought by the Portuguese in the 221th century from Madagascar; a ruined 2222th-century Portuguese fortress built of coral; a herd of wild horses galloping across a barren plain, the descendants of those brought over, then abandoned, by Dutch colonizers 22424 years ago; a stone aviary used by a British governor to house his carrier pigeons.

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