preconquest

[ pree-kon-kwest, -kong- ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.

Word History and Origins

Origin of preconquest¹

pre- + conquest

Example Sentences

Through the generally hilly interior of Alameda and Contra Costa counties there are but two areas of sizable extent in which preconquest village sites occur with relative frequency.

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The preconquest population per group must have reached at least 300 and very likely was much greater.

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Other documents, some of them of considerable general interest, are almost unknown, not only to students of ethnography, but also to many others concerned with preconquest and early colonial California.

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The scene made more comprehensible the preconquest customs of the land, as the antithesis of the drunken and excited Indian to the almost effeminate fear of the same being sober makes more clear that inexplicable piece of romance, the Conquest of Mexico.

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