Questions tagged [conquest]
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How did William the Conqueror consolidate his military victory?
Seems to me once you have won the war, your troubles are just beginning.
You've got a small number of men few that can speak the local language. How do you go about putting your men in charge, ...
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Why didn't Romans conquer/explore the African Atlantic Coast?
I know that the Romans, when their empire was at its peak around the 1st and 2nd century AD, controlled the northern coast of Africa and had the Sahara desert as some kind of natural "wall" ...
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Which city has been captured most frequently?
According to Wiki, Jerusalem has been captured and re-captured 44 times in History.
I found this number to be quite high (as one would expect with Jerusalem) and it got me wondering if any other ...
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How Did the Mongol Empire Get So Big?
Undoubtedly, the largest empire in the existence of human history was the Mongol Empire, once a hodgepodge of warring nomadic tribes from Central Asia before banding together under the banner of ...
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Did Rome attempt to justify its conquests?
In college, a history professor said they did not -- maybe (not sure if I recall correctly) that ideas like that are modern and Rome wanted the slaves and treasure and so they just went ahead.
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Was Roman expansion & casus belli as just as they claimed?
Every time I read about Rome conquering some other land or nation, it always says that they were the ones attacked and then won that fight. And I find it a bit too convenient and Rome's greatest ...
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What is the approximate value of a Spanish ducat in 1557?
In the text of "A narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557" the anonymous author states that de Soto "... gathered a hundred and four score thousand ...
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Did the Mapuche conquer other non-Mapuche tribes?
The story of the Mapuche, as I learnt in school, was that the Mapuche were (and are) a rather homogeneous group, settled in a given area, which was attacked first by the Incas, then by the Spanish ...
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Did the Byzantines forget using the caltrops?
Many of the Muslim conquests against the Byzantine empire (both Arab and Turkic) came down to clever use of cavalry. But the Romans had a handy helper against cavalry charges, the caltrop.
Did the ...
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How do we compare historical empires on these statistics?
I see three criteria here:
I'm wondering which historical empire was the most long lived, largest, most populous, and represented the largest percentage of world population.
Who controlled the ...
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How were the invasions of Korea by the Mongols and the Manchus similar?
The first Mongol invasions of 1231 forced the Koreans to capitulate and reconsider their defensive posture.
In an attempt to overthrow the newly imposed tributes of the Mongols, the Koreans (at the ...
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Why do some ancient languages become widespread across cultures, while others don't?
At first glance, I don't see any strong interconnections between the spread of languages and the history of conquests.
For example, according to the Northern theory, during the Middle Ages, Eastern ...
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Has there been a war whose declared goal was a mere land grab without any attempts to ethically justify it?
TL&DR: To put it simply, I am looking for a good example (as modern and well-known as possible) of an invader who was very upfront about the evil, criminal character of his invasion from its ...
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What was the main driver of conquest and wars in ancient times? Why were they so frequent? [closed]
The, perhaps naive, impression of someone who had history classes in high school is that the human society in the past put a lot of effort into expanding borders.
Empires and kingdoms rose and fell ...
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Which people resisted Russian expansion most fiercely?
The Russian Empire's expansion towards the east and south meant conquering lots of local tribes along the way (Buryats, Yakuts, etc.). These peoples unwillingly became ethnic minorities in Russia. ...
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Was there ever a conqueror who named the place after themselves? [closed]
In fiction, there are examples of conquerors laying claim to a place (castle, town, city, region) and then changing its name, sometimes even after themselves.
There are plenty of streets, towns, and ...
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What examples from history are there of a dictator successfully annexing countries by force over the long term? [closed]
This question is indirectly about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and attempting to predict the future by studying the past.
This article claims:
Wartime land grabs tend to end badly for tyrants, ...
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Why didn't every nation commit genocides against every other nation when they conquered land? [closed]
I'm not saying genocides were great or anything like that. I'm just curious as to why would you leave the conquered population alive, leaving the door open for the possible future revolts when you ...
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Is there documented evidence of Israel concentration/death camps used against the Arabs? [closed]
According to some articles I've been reading, there is testimony that as Israel began its conquest and subsequent occupation of Palestine, they sent Arab men to concentration, labor and even death ...
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