Having accepted the Byzantine protection, the Bagratids, from their base in the region of Tao-Klarjeti, presided over the period of cultural revival and territorial expansionism.
There is growing concern among governments friendly to Israel at indications Israeli objectives may be shifting from original position seeking peace with no repeat no territorial gains toward one of territorial expansionism.
The objective was territorial expansionism.
Like all nations, Arab countries agree and disagree among themselves, but at Cairo they agreed to present a united front of peace to challenge the revival of territorial expansionism and subversive politics.
Tughlugh Timur also later converted to Islam, whose concepts of ummah, ghazat (holy war), and jihad inspired his territorial expansionism into Transoxiana.
The implementation of a military dictatorship and territorial expansionism were considered the best ways to protect the Yamato-damashii.
Democratic nominee James K. Polk ran on a platform that embraced American territorial expansionism, an idea soon to be referred to as Manifest Destiny.