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Someone who takes everything, then discovers the hardest land to hold is the one already won.
means A person who defeats and takes control of a country, people, or territory by force.
from From the Latin "conquirere," meaning to seek out or gather together — built from "com-" (thoroughly) and "quaerere" (to seek, the same root that gives us "query" and "quest"). It traveled through Old French as "conquerre" before reaching English. The sense shifted from merely "acquiring" to "acquiring by force," and English famously stamped the title onto William, Duke of Normandy, after 1066 — William the Conqueror — fixing the word forever to the image of a man taking a land that was not his.
- william's nickname
- Originally called William the Bastard before 1066
- alexander wept
- Reportedly cried with no worlds left to conquer
- empires shrink
- Genghis Khan's empire split among heirs within decades
- latin root
- From conquirere, meaning to search out thoroughly
- the worm
- Conqueror Worm: Poe's poem about death winning everything
william the conqueror — norman duke who conquered england in 1066 and became its king
alexander the great — macedonian king who conquered territories from greece to india, 336-323 bce