Conquest

How it is used

Common in the names of events: the Norman Conquest of England (1066), the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The verb is conquer and the person is a conqueror. Historians look both at the military campaign and at how conquered lands were later ruled.

Example sentences

1. After the Ottoman conquest of 1453, Constantinople became the new imperial capital.

2. The Norman Conquest brought major changes to landholding in England.

Common collocations

• the Norman Conquest
• military conquest
• the conquest of
• territorial conquest
• lands acquired by conquest

Related terms

• empireA large state or group of territories and peoples ruled by a single supreme authority, often an emperor or sultan, and usually built through conquest.
• campaignA series of military operations carried out over a period of time in one area or with one main aim, such as capturing a city or defeating an enemy army.
• siegeA military operation in which an army surrounds a town or fortress, cuts off its supplies and attacks it until the defenders surrender or the attackers give up.
• annexTo take control of a territory and make it officially part of one's own state, often by force or without the agreement of the people living there.
• colonialismThe policy or practice of a state taking control of other territories and peoples, settling or ruling them, and using their land and resources for its own benefit.

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