preconquest

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• Their descendants survive today as the Garifuna of Central America, although their preconquest island culture has been transformed greatly through five centuries of interaction with Africans and Europeans.

  Academic text (1990)

• For example, Hodge's 1984 monograph relied heavily on documentary sources in constructing a political history for each city-state in the preconquest Basin of Mexico.

  Academic text (1997)

• These mountains also symbolize the largest social unit in preconquest times, the tribe.

  Academic text (1993)

• Thus, it follows that later Pal informants were not aware of the preconquest existence of "subtribes" and hereditary "subtribal chiefs"; those traditions, and knowledge of them, had been lost.

  Academic text (1999)

• 43. Before the 1860s, these groups, like their Pai neighbors, maintained hunting-and-gathering economies in Arizona basin-and-range resource zones; their preconquest lifestyles were similar.

  Academic text (1999)

• This shrine will have been surrounded by clusters of marigolds (yellow was the preconquest color of the dead) and hung with photographs of the dead and oleographs of the family's patron saints.

  Academic text (1990)

• The archaeological findings reveal much about the region's preconquest societies and their lifestyles.

• Scholars often study preconquest civilizations to understand the impact of subsequent colonization on indigenous populations.

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