* Manuals containing information and hints vital to the completion of the game, like answers to riddles ( Conquests of Camelot, King's Quest 6 ), recipes of spells ( King's Quest 3 ), keys to deciphering non-Latin writing systems ( Ultima series, see also Ultima writing systems ), maze guides ( Manhunter ), dialogue spoken by other characters in the game ( Wasteland, Dragon Wars ), excerpts of the storyline ( most Advanced Dungeons and Dragons games and Wing Commander I ), or a radio frequency to use to communicate with a character to further a game ( Metal Gear Solid ).

Frankly, they don't feature the deep, complex plots of games like " Police Quest III " and " Conquests of the Longbow ".

Some examples of great works of the era of empire can be found in A. J. Smithers's book Honourable Conquests.

In his book The Early Islamic Conquests ( 1981 ), Fred Donner argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves.

In the face of the Mongol Conquests, many of these states paid tribute to the Mongols, becoming effective vassals.

Conquests under Aulus Plautius, focused on the commercially valuable southeast of Britain.

Conquests of Justinian shown in green.

Conquests on land were driven by the discipline and innovation of the Ottoman military ; and on the sea, the Ottoman Navy aided this expansion significantly.

* In the PC game Civilization III, included in the Play the World and Conquests expansion packs, Ragnar is the leader of Scandinavia.

The vast differences between Old and Middle English have led some historical linguists to claim that the language underwent creolisation at the time of either the Norse or Norman Conquests, or during both.

* The Aquitaine Conquests, which brought much firmer control in Aquitaine, much land for resources and many people to fight for Edward.

* Bee Wilson: Boudoir Politics Review of Lola Montez: Her Life and Conquests by James Morton · Portrait ,( 2007 ) in London Review of Books Vol.

Conquests by " criminal virtue " are ones in which the new prince secures his power through cruel, immoral deeds, such as the execution of political rivals.

In 1977, he starred with his The Good Life co-star Penelope Keith in the televised version of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy The Norman Conquests.

Esmonde and Larbey chose Felicity Kendal and Penelope Keith after seeing them on stage together in The Norman Conquests.

His rise to stardom began in 1974 when Eric Thompson cast him as the melancholy vet in Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests at Greenwich.

Besides taking the leading role in the TV versions of Frederic Raphael's The Glittering Prizes and Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests, Conti appeared in the Princess and the Pea episode of the family television series Faerie Tale Theatre, guested on Friends and Cosby, and played opposite Nigel Hawthorne in a long-running series of Vauxhall Astra car advertisements in the UK during the mid 1990s.

( 1971 ) The History of the Mongol Conquests, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. ISBN 0-8122-1766-7

* Sicker, Martin ( 2000 ) The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna, Praeger Publishers.

Many rural areas reverted to Berber rule and the region as whole was lost by the Byzantine Empire during the Muslim Conquests.

The Domesday Survey made during the Norman Conquests lists this manor as lying on the edge of a great woods at Macclesfield.

* Adrian Tinniswood, Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean, 343 pp. Riverhead Books, 2010.

It is usually known in English as The Book of Invasions or The Book of Conquests, and in Modern Irish as Leabhar Gabhála Éireann or Leabhar Gabhála na hÉireann.

Another work occasionally ascribed to al-Waqidi, " Futuh al-Sham " (" Conquests of Syria "), is not authentic ; it contains characters from the sixth Islamic century, long after the time when the real al-Waqidi lived.

It was made capable of making war and peace, negotiating diplomatic and commercial agreements with foreign countries, and deciding disputes between the states, including their additional and contested western territories.

On June 7, 1809, Shuja Shah signed a treaty with the British, which included a clause stating that he would oppose the passage of foreign troops through his territories.

Typical tasks included garrisoning the colonies, capturing strategically important territories, and participating in actions to pacify colonial borders, provide support to allied governments, suppress Britain's rivals, and protect against foreign powers and hostile natives.

He continued to claim sovereignty over all of China, including the territories held by his government and the People's Republic, as well as territory the latter ceded to foreign governments, such as Tuva and Outer Mongolia.

Abdur Rahman had confirmed the Treaty of Gandamak, leaving the British in control of the territories ceded by Yaqub Khan and ensuring British control of Afghanistan's foreign policy in exchange for protection and a subsidy.

Under pressure, Abdur Rahman agreed in 1893 to accept a mission headed by the British Indian foreign secretary, Sir Mortimer Durand, to define the limits of British and Afghan control in the Pashtun territories.

Many Greeks either fled to other European nations or to geographically isolated areas ( i. e. mountains and heavily forested territories ) in order to escape foreign rule.

Henry's successor, Richard I " the Lion Heart " ( also known as " The absent king "), was preoccupied with foreign wars, taking part in the Third Crusade and defending his French territories against Philip II of France.

Australia's ties with the UK dwindled rapidly as Britain closed foreign bases, disengaged from its former territories East of Suez and began courting the EEC, as a result of which American investment in Australia increased dramatically and Australia's onetime enemy Japan replaced the UK as Australia's major trading partner.

Various semi-independent princes still claimed specific territories, but Ivan III forced the lesser princes to acknowledge the grand prince of Moscow and his descendants as unquestioned rulers with control over military, judicial, and foreign affairs.

Astor's business rebounded in 1817 after the U. S. Congress passed a protectionist law that barred foreign traders from U. S. territories.

The territories along the eastern Baltic first came under foreign domination at the beginning of the 13th century, with the formal establishment of Riga in 1201 under the German Teutonic Knights.

Polish officials refused to allow Soviet troops on to Polish territory if Germany attacked ; as Polish foreign minister Józef Beck pointed out, they feared that once the Red Army entered their territories, it might never leave.

This devolution of power weakened the central government's grip on the whole country, a weakness further aggravated by foreign powers vying to carve up autonomous colonial territories in different parts of the Qing Empire in the later half of the 19th century.

As Roman territories expanded during the early and middle Republican eras, foreign wars increased the opportunities for self-promotion.

The acquisition of these territories and his restless foreign policy had earned Louis many enemies among the German princes.

As in its other foreign territories, Bhutan left administration of the Bengal Duars territory to local officials and collected its revenues.

In December 1918, Mitteleuropa was obsolete as the Germans withdrew from the Ober-Ost territory, and for the next few years in the newly created political vacuum the territories of Belarus would witness the struggle of various national and foreign factions.

While Belarus National Republic faced off with Litbel, foreign powers were preparing to reclaim what they saw as their territories: Polish forces were moving from the West, and Russians from the East.

The album was eventually released between 2001 and 2003 in various foreign territories.

Foreign policy was the primary issue of contention, for Walpole and Townshend believed that George I was conducting foreign affairs with the interests of his German territories — rather than those of Great Britain — at heart.

During the 1950s, nationalism gained the upper hand in the four East African territories, the achievement of closer relations among the four also became an important foreign policy objective.

The Secretary of State's remit includes: relations with foreign countries, matters pertaining to the Commonwealth of Nations and the overseas territories in addition to the promotion of British interests abroad.

The ROC claims to meet all these criteria as it possesses a government exercising effective jurisdiction over well-defined territories with over 23 million permanent residents and a full fledged foreign ministry.

The Argentine territories, held back by their closed economies, lack of any activity closely linked to foreign trade, and the scant amounts of labour and capital they consequently received, fell far behind those of other areas of the colonial world that participated in foreign trade.