conquest

But though these art objects carry the weight of centuries of defeats and conquests, they can’t alone engender a cultural identity.

Over seven days and nearly 3,000 miles in a small but sturdy Nissan Versa rental, I visited Mexican American communities across the Southwest, the region the U.S. took from Mexico by conquest.

His arrival there was the beginning of a period of European contact with the Americas, which would lead to conquest and settlement - and the deaths of many millions of indigenous people to diseases and war.

But this government also has religious forces setting forth, not a strategy, but a cosmic vision of conquest.

“The so-called conquest was accomplished with the sword and the cross,” López Obrador said in video that he released at the time explaining his letter.