Has there been a war in which the South conquered the North?
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King Narmer is credited with unifying Ancient Egypt. The Upper Kingdom (South) conquered the Lower Kingdom (North)
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The Romans conquered Gaul, parts of Germany and along the Danube.
The Mongols conquered most of Russia.
Ayutthaya Thais conquered the Lanna kingdom in the north (Chiang Mai)
The Japanese conquered Manchuria and parts of China.
Nazi Germany conquered in Operation Weserübung Denmark and Norway.
There is no particular reason why 'southern' countries cannot conquer 'northern' countries.
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The Austro-Prussian invasion of Denmark in 1864 during the Second Schleswig War:
The war ended on 30 October 1864, with the Treaty of Vienna and Denmark's cession of the Duchies of Schleswig (except for the island of Ærø, which remained Danish), Holstein and Saxe-Lauenburg to Prussia and Austria.
Before and during the South African Wars (1879–1915) the attackers coming from the South went North, winning, conquering, incorporating:
To summarise the Peloponnesian War: Southerly Sparta conquered Athens.
The Saxon Wars, also called the Saxon War or Saxon Uprising (not to be confused with the Saxon Rebellion of 1073-75), were the campaigns and insurrections of the thirty-three years from 772, when Charlemagne first entered Saxony with the intent to conquer, to 804, when the last rebellion of disaffected tribesmen was crushed.
Two Islamic expansions would also be noted. First coming from Africa to Spain:
Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād (Arabic: طارق بن زياد) was a Muslim commander who led the Islamic Umayyad conquest of Visigothic Hispania in 711–718 A.D. Under the orders of the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I he led a large army and crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from the North African coast, consolidating his troops at what is today known as the Rock of Gibraltar. The name "Gibraltar" is the Spanish derivation of the Arabic name Jabal Ṭāriq (جبل طارق), meaning "mountain of Ṭāriq",1 which is named after him.
And from the East again, going North into Europe, mainly Greece and the Balkans:
Rumelia, Wars in Albania, Conquest of Bosnia, Croatian–Ottoman wars, Conquest of central parts of Hungarian Kingdom, Wallachian and Moldavian campaigns, Conquest of the Kingdom of Hungary
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Yes. The Kushites of the upper (more inland, or southern) Nile valley.
The Kushites certainly did their time as Egyptian vassals themselves. However, sometime around 727 BCE they invaded Egypt, starting an 80 year period where they ruled the country as the 25th Dynasty.
Maximum extent of Kush in 700 BC.
While not as extreme as this, it was also fairly common for upper Egypt to conquer the lower (more north) Nile valley whenever the two became divided for whatever reason. Its possible this is due to its relatively secure location. With the desert all around, its rather difficult to march on Thebes without coming up or down the Nile, whereas cities near the delta like Memphis were exposed to overland invasions, and were thus invaded repeatedly by their eastern neighbors.
(Portions of this answer cribbed from my answer to this question)
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The Muslim Arabs conquered the Persian (Sasanian) empire and the largest part of the Byzantine empire.
The Romans conquered Gaul, and later Britain.
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