world conquest
Total planetary domination
World conquest is the ambition or achievement of gaining control over the entire globe.
The phrase appears most often in discussions of historical empires, fictional villains, and strategy games: The board game rewards players who pursue world conquest.
In serious contexts, it describes the perceived aims of expansionist powers: Nazi ideology centered on world conquest.
- dominationSupreme authority held
- empireDomain under unified control
- evil empireMorally corrupt superpower
- invasionForcible entry into territory
- total warConflict engaging entire nations
hegemony · tyranny · imperialism · dictator · throne · regime · armies · Napoleon · Caesar · Reich · iron curtain · global · grand strategy · supremacy · crusade · annexation · occupation · militarism
- Alexander legendsBucephalus, Gordian knot, divine birth, water of life, flying machine
- strategy gameschess, strategy, checkers, go, Go
- Ancient MacedoniaPhilip II, Alexander the Great, Bucephalus, Eurydice, phalanx
- comic book plotsorigin story, secret identity, multiverse, resurrection, civil war
world conquestworld peace
Global absence of conflict
global harmony · universal brotherhood · international cooperation · decolonization · imperial collapse
world conquestlocal governance
Community-level administration system
regional autonomy · national sovereignty · balkanization · decentralization · city-state
world conquestworld peace
Global absence of conflict
pacifism · peaceful coexistence · global cooperation · international diplomacy · global harmony
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