Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will be as dear as that of our past heroes. If we keep to our declared policy of war only for the liberation of Cuba, then they will have an enduring place in history. If, in the end, we pervert these ends, and are inspired by the lust of conquest, they will be remembered only as men of valor. Only wars of high aims leave behind imperishable names of greatness. The fate of the dead hero is in the hands of those who survive...
Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire in its western provinces. At the fall of the Assyrian empire it overspread Asia, except Arabia, and supplanted the Semitic languages. The reason it spread is unknown; but the conquest was almost as complete as was that of Arabic later at the time of the Moslem conquest...
...Strauss, ibid, pp. 718-719; C. L. Rice, ibid, 723,- (y) No danger that this case will furnish a precedent for further advances dangerous to us by Great Britain.- (x) This advance (if advance it is) is under a bona fide boundary dispute which existed before the British conquest of Dutch Guiana in 1814: Maps in Harvard, Boston Public and Athenxum libraries of dates 1657-1814.- (1) British claims have not been progressively extended: Venezuelan Memorandum in U. S. Senate Ex. Does. 50th Cong. 1st Session Vol. 11. No. 226, pp. 23-37, Venezuela Memorandum in Foreign Relations...
...classical writers are even more unsatisfactory in their allusions relating to the times before the Macedonian conquest. Fable is at its worst here. Thus in Pliny there is an absurd account of the gold-hunting of the Bactrians. The works of Herodotus, Diodorus, and Strabo contain numerous legends regarding the production of the precious metals. But the conquest of Persia by Alexander, laying open the vast treasure houses of Susa, Persepolis and Ecbatana afforded something like a measure of the metallic wealth which had been amassed through many centuries. In that early time this wealth amounted to hundreds of millions...
...Macedonian conquest changd the conditions under which, down to that time, the production of the precious metals had been carried on. Gold had already begun to lose its character as treasure, and take on its character as money. Gold to the value of L40,000,000 sterling was carried by Alexander into Macedonia, and from Macedonia it was carried by Paullus to Rome. Suddenly, violently, the whole mass accumulated unpper non-economic principles came under the control of economic law. The effect upon prices was enormous. It was characteristic of the Roman People that this effect was turned to evil...