Conquerors can genuinely mourn the civilization they destroyed

Evidence

In Granada, the bells of the new churchesring over the empty palaces.The Moor is gone. The Castilian is here.The orange-blossom still blooms.The fountains still flow.But the singer of the city is gone. … And whoever told this ballad — Christian, Spanish, Castilian —wept for a Moor he had never met,in a city he had never seen,on the day his own people won. — , A Year of World Stories, 3496

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the lament-for-the-enemy theme and the ‘colonizer’s lament’ paradigm flagged earlier in this same chapter. — connects to: Successful conquerors often adopt local symbols of power. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 380

Broader Connections

• Successful conquerors often adopt local symbols of power. #expands (0.70) — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 380