Conquest
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In 1739, the Kohinoor fell into the hands of the Persian invader Nadir Shah, whose loot from his
conquest
of Delhi (and decimation of its inhabitants) also included the priceless Peacock Throne.
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Yes, it does say that, but in a very specific context: the anticipated
conquest
of the sanctuary city of Mecca, where fighting was usually forbidden.
"By what means are the Europeans thus powerful; or why, since they can so easily visit Asia and Africa for trade or conquest, cannot the Asiaticks and Africans invade their coasts, plant colonies in their ports, and give laws to their natural princes?
And then some other folk will say, "Actually, what changes civilizations, what modifies them and what changes people's lives are empires, so the great developments in human history are stories of
conquest
and of war."
We still have that old brain that provides our basic drives and motivations, but I may have a drive for conquest, and that'll be sublimated by the neocortex into writing a poem or inventing an app or giving a TED Talk, and it's really the neocortex that's where the action is.
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