Ugly stories of conquests and bloodshed.

Out of the patchwork of conquests one world.

As far as I know, you've made no new conquests.

I simply hated her, as I did all Guillaume's conquests.

Are you used, Mr Jones, to make these sudden conquests?

Does this nephew of yours consider that his conquests give him a right to override?

...how I envied Caesar. Went suddenly sick with it. Not his conquests or his triumphs.

As in the previous system, the conflicts that preceded and accompanied colonial conquests were brutal and inhuman.

The Rising Sun Empire, emboldened by their conquests... in China and Indochina... expects to become the most powerful nation on Earth, next to their great ally, Hitler's Germany.

But, even as rhetoric, the phrase Asia for Asians is problematic for historical reasons. In the 1930s, Japanese militarists used the idea of an East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere as a cover for their imperial ambitions and conquests.

To understand why, it is helpful to take a broad view of Latin America s history and economic development. The societies of the Americas were forged by European conquests of indigenous populations, and by the racial and ethnic divisions that followed.

2. From this point of view, the recognition of the international dimension of human rights and the emergence of the individual as a subject of international law constitute the two major conquests of this period and they introduce an ethical dimension into international legal relations.

Indeed, the very existence of the Japanese nation was endangered, as most cities were bombed, Okinawa was invaded, and atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the end, Japan was disarmed, postwar trials were held, and most of the country s imperial conquests were reversed.

The West is not trying, as it did during the Crusades or the Imperialist conquests of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to impose its religion or values on the Arabs. Instead, the West is defending common values, such as freedom, respect for human life, and the rule of law.

Above all, there have been Japanese leaders recurring pilgrimages to Yasukuni. The shrine not only records war criminals in its Book of Souls it also contains the Yushukan museum, where Japan s conquests in the 1930 s and 1940 s are glorified as just wars fought for survival and self defense or for the liberation of Asia.

But, beneath the surface, unease in the bilateral relationship persists, partly for historical reasons. Nationalist Chinese remember imperial Russia s conquests, while many Russians have a morbid fear of the yellow peril, even though the Mongols conquered and reigned in China, while they were eventually repelled from Russia (not to mention that the Chinese never invaded Russia).

Ever since its great military victory in the Six Day War of 1967, when it repelled the combined armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, which had openly proclaimed their desire to destroy the Jewish state, Israel has been in the throes of an ideological and military confusion resulting from the conquests it made during that conflict.

Creating great expectations and exaggerated hopes of well being and development is dangerous, as are the disappointments that can be felt by our peoples when the democratic system and the new economic order are incapable of giving concrete answers to the basic needs of our nations. This is the risk of backlash, the reversal of conquests and the return to instability, rivalry, mistrust and the loss of internal, and even international, peace.