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It took the Romans three years of brutal fighting to conquer Crete in 67 b.c., and they did so only by playing the rival city-states against one another.
Like Alexander the Great--a Gillette hero because he demanded that his soldiers shave--the Boston-based company has no new worlds to conquer.
To control land and sea routes to the south, the Mauryas still needed to conquer the eastern kingdom of Kalinga (modern Orissa).
The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations.
•1000–1100 Normans conquer south; First Crusade