The operation stemmed Creating from Nazi Germany 's ideological aim of conquering Conquering the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans ( ) , and to also use Using some Slavs as a slave labour force for the Axis war effort and to annihilate Killing the rest according to Generalplan Ost , and to acquire Getting the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories .

After conquering Conquering the city , Sultan Mehmed transferred Change the capital of the Ottoman State from Edirne to Constantinople and established Creating his court there .

After conquering Conquering the Achaemenid Empire of Persia , the Macedonian king ( and now the great king of the Persian Empire ) , Alexander , launched Military_operation a campaign into the Indian subcontinent in present-day Pakistan , part of which formed Coming_to_be the easternmost territories of the Achaemenid Empire following Motion the Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley ( 6th century BC ) .

This caused Causation Alexander to turn Motion south , advancing Cause_to_make_progress through southern Punjab and Sindh , along the way conquering Conquering more tribes along the lower Indus River , before finally turning Motion westward .

The Assyrians defended Defending Judah , conquering Conquering Israel , Aram-Damascus and the Philistines , but the post-war alliance only brought Bringing more trouble for the king of Judah .

The Fifth Crusade ( 1217–1221 ) was an attempt by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering Conquering the powerful Ayyubid state in Egypt .

Ferdinand used Using this as an excuse to attack Attack Navarre , conquering Conquering it while its potential protector , France , was beset Hostile_encounter by England , Venice , and Ferdinand 's own Italian armies .

The Athenians , however , counterattacked Attack and scored Getting a crushing victory over the Boeotians at the Battle of Oenophyta and followed this victory up by conquering Conquering all of Boeotia except for Thebes .