The migration of the Central Asian Mongolic-speaking nomads pushed by the Mongolic Khitay state Lyao formed in Northern China in 916 AD.

Today a Khitay tribe still lives in southern Kyrgyzstan.

In the beginning of the tenth century AD a Mongolic tribe, the Khitan ( also spelled Khitay, Kidan, Kitan, Qidan, etc.

In 1141, the Seljuq Sultan Ahmed Sanjar was defeated by the Kara Khitay at the battle of Qatwan and Anush Tigin's grandson Ala ad-Din Atsiz became a vassal to Yelü Dashi of the Kara Khitan.

He conquered Herat in 1204, Balkh, regions of Cüzcan and Tokharistan and Sistan from Ghurids in 1206, Samarkand ( captured by Karakhanids in 1208 ) in 1207 from Kara Khitay, Tabaristan in 1210 from Ghurids and Maveraünnehir from Western Karakhanids.

Slavery became the fate of multitudes, sold by Khitay running endless manhunt attacks and roundups.

Muslim historians initially referred to the state simply as Khitay or Khitai ; they may have adopted this form of " Khitan " via the Uyghurs of Kocho in whose language the final-n or-ń became-y.

The western Khitan state became known under its Turkic name Kara-Khitay ( Black, Western, or Great Khitay ), and their ruler bore the Turkic title of Gurkhan ( Khan ’ s son-in law ).

The Kimaks and then Khitay pressed the Kipchaks to move west, occupying lands that earlier belonged to Oguzes.

The Khitay nomads occupied the Kimak and Kipchak lands west of the Irtysh.

During their attempts at conquest in 1460 and again in 1491, the Incas established forts in the Central Valley of Chile, but they could not colonize the region.

In his reign Russia concluded the union with republican France to contain the growing power of Germany, completed the conquest of Central Asia, and exacted important territorial and commercial concessions from China.

This policy led immediately to the Russian conquest of the rest of Central Asia and the creation of two administrative districts, the General-Gubernatorstvo ( Governor-Generalship ) of Russian Turkestan and that of the Steppe.

The general diffusion of Turkish populations over Anatolia, before Osman's time, was in main part a push from the Mongol conquest of Central Asia, Iran and then East Anatolia.

Explorations and conquest expeditions launched from Panama claimed new lands and riches from Central and South America.

However, in the mid-nineteenth century Russia, attracted to the region's commercial potential and especially to its cotton, began the full military conquest of Central Asia.

* Timur completes his conquest of Central Asia and parts of Persia, establishing the Timurid Empire.

Following Cyrus the Great's conquest of the Near East and Central Asia, Cambyses II further expanded the empire into Egypt during the Late Period by defeating the Egyptian pharaoh Psamtik III during the battle of Pelusium in 525 BCE.

After the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, most of the inhabitants of Central America shared a similar history.

The Spanish conquest of Yucatán is the much longer campaign, from 1551 – 1697, against the Maya peoples of the Maya civilization in the Yucatán Peninsula of present day Mexico and northern Central America.

He led plunder and conquest raids across Central and Southeastern Europe, subjugating most of the neighbouring tribes.

Later migrations ( such as the Arab conquest and Viking, Magyar, Moorish, Turkic, and Mongol invasions ) also had significant effects ( especially in North Africa, the Iberian peninsula, Anatolia and Central and Eastern Europe ); however, they are outside the scope of the Migration Period.

At the same time as she was acting with Russia in the Levant, the British government engaged in the affairs of Afghanistan in order to stem her advance into Central Asia, and fought the First Opium War with China which ended in the conquest of Chusan, later to be exchanged for the island of Hong Kong.

The importance to history of Wu Zetian's period of political and military leadership includes major expansion of the Chinese empire, extending it much beyond its previous territorial limits, deep into Central Asia, and completing the conquest of Korea.

The dynasty was founded by Yelü Dashi, who led the remnants of the Liao Dynasty to Central Asia after fleeing from the Jurchen conquest of their homeland in North and Northeast of modern day China.

Since the 16th Century Spanish conquest of Central America, the territories that became the Federation were governed by a Captaincy General of the Kingdom of Guatemala, based in Guatemala City and associated with the Viceroyalty of New Spain in Mexico City.

Following the Siamese conquest of Laos in 1828 and the subsequent dispersion of the Lao population into Siam ( Central Thailand ), Lao music became fashionable there.

He restored his father's officials to their former positions and was surrounded by the Uyghur, Naiman and Central Asian officials, favoring Han Chinese commanders who helped his father's conquest of Northern China.

He led plunder and conquest raids across Central and Southeastern Europe, subjugating most of the neighbouring tribes.

Earlier, Guatemala had been a state within the United Provinces of Central America since 1823, before that part of the First Mexican Empire under Agustín de Iturbide, and before 1821 ruled by the Captain General of Guatemala, a Spanish colonial official owing allegiance to the Viceroy of New Spain and the King of Spain, back to the Spanish conquest of the region in the early 16th century.

Although some indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere did have domestic dogs or caninae ; including the current Southwestern US, Aztec and other Central American peoples, the inhabitants of the Arctic / Tundra regions ( Inuit, Aleut, Cree ), and possibly some South American groups similar to South American fox ( Pseudalopex culpaeus ) or Yagan dog, during the conquest of the Americas, Spanish conquistadors used Spanish Mastiffs and other Molossers in battle against the Taínos, Aztecs and Mayans.

After the Mongol conquest of Central Asia, the Barlas settled in Turkistan ( which then became also known as Moghulistan-" Land of Mongols ") and intermingled to a considerable degree with the local Turkic and Turkic-speaking population, so that at the time of Timur's reign the Barlas had become thoroughly Turkicized in terms of language and habits.

The Ottoman failure to capture Vienna in 1529 turned the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe, which had previously directly annexed Central Hungary and established a vassal state in Transylvania in the wake of the Battle of Mohács.

He was the first official diplomat to bring back reliable information about Central Asia to the Chinese imperial court, then under Emperor Wu of Han, and played an important pioneering role in the Chinese colonization and conquest of the region now known as Xinjiang.

The Greco-Persian Wars had their roots in the conquest of the Greek cities of Asia Minor, and particular Ionia, by the Achaemenid Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great shortly after 550 BC.

Alexander the Great's conquest of the Achaemenid Empire marked the beginning of the Hellenistic period, which was characterized by a new wave of Greek colonization in Asia and Africa, with Greek ruling classes established in Egypt, southwest Asia and northwest India.

Remnants of these languages lingered into Persian times ( 6th – 4th centuries BC ) and were finally extinguished by the spread of Hellenism which followed Alexander the Great's conquest of Asia Minor in the 4th century BC.

After the Roman conquest Chios became part of the province of Asia.

The Chola navy played a vital role in the expansion of the Chola Tamil kingdom, including the conquest of the Sri Lanka islands, Kadaaram ( Present day Burma ), Sri Vijaya ( present day Southeast Asia ), the spread of Hinduism, Tamil architecture and Tamil culture to Southeast Asia and in curbing the piracy in Southeast Asia in 900 CE.

In the centuries following the conquest of western Asia by Alexander the Great, each story was retold to more closely resemble the other.

In history, racism has been a major part of the political and ideological underpinning of genocides such as the holocaust, but also in colonial contexts such as the rubber booms in South America and the Congo, and in the European conquest of the Americas and colonization of Africa, Asia and Australia.

The Allied victory at Salamis ended the immediate threat to Greece, and Xerxes now returned to Asia with part of the army, leaving his general Mardonius to attempt to complete the conquest.

Once conquered, Japan would use China's manpower for the conquest of all Asia.

Thus, upon the conquest of Persia, Alexander the Great sent to Athens 300 suits of Persian armour with the following inscription Alexander, son of Philip, and all the Greeks except the Spartans, give these offerings taken from the foreigners who live in Asia added.

Domestic chicken in the Americas before Western conquest is still an ongoing discussion, but blue-egged chicken, found only in the Americas and Asia, suggest an Asian origin for early American chickens.

Portugal was the first European power to establish a bridgehead into the lucrative Southeast Asia trade route with the conquest of the Sultanate of Malacca in 1511.

Asia in 600 CE, showing the Sassanid Empire before the Arab conquest.

Without occupying Manchuria, the Japanese probably could not have carried out their plan for conquest over Southeast Asia or taken the risk to attack Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December, 1941.

As a result Xerxes retreated to Asia with much of his army, leaving Mardonius to complete the conquest of Greece.