Conquest
17 books featuring this theme
Conquest is territorial or political domination justified by divine mandate, prowess, or destiny. It reassigns sacred space, law, and identity within new hegemonies.

Nihon Shoki
Prince Toneri
720 CE
East Asian, Japanese

The History of the Kings of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth
1136 CE
Celtic, Welsh

Book of Invasions
Anonymous
1000-1200 CE
Celtic, Irish

Heimskringla
Snorri Sturluson
1220-1230 CE
Germanic, Norse

Sumerian King List
Anonymous
2000-1800 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian

Samguk Sagi
Kim Busik
1145 CE
East Asian, Korean

Codex Mendoza
Anonymous
1541-1542 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec

Bamboo Annals
Anonymous
400-300 BCE
East Asian, Chinese

Annals of the Cakchiquels
Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá and Francisco Díaz
1570-1600 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan

Codex Nuttall
Anonymous
1300-1500 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec

Relación de Michoacán
Anonymous
1540-1550 CE
Mesoamerican, Purepecha

Suma y Narración de los Incas
Juan de Betanzos
1551-1557 CE
Mesoamerican, Inca

Gesta Hungarorum
Anonymous
1200-1210 CE
Slavic, Hungarian

Codex Bodley
Anonymous
1500 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec

Oghuz Khagan Epic
Anonymous
1200-1400 CE
Persian, Turkic

Goguryeo Stele Inscriptions
Anonymous
414-600 CE
East Asian, Korean

Ragnars sona þáttr
Anonymous
1200-1300 CE
Germanic, Norse