Read the quote from Turner to the right. According to this passage, what does it mean to "conquer" the land? to bypass it in favor of better lands farther away to make it productive and profitable to destroy its original inhabitants No longer is it a question of how to avoid or cross the Great Plains and the arid desert. It is a question of how to conquer those rejected lands by new method of farming and by cultivating new crops from seed collected by the government and by scientists from the cold, dry steppes of Siberia, the burning sands of Egypt, and the remote interior of China. DONE.. -F. J. Tummer​