coexisted
Meaning
of Coexist
Source: Webster's dictionaryExamples
Two opposing world-views - the technological and the traditional - coexisted in uneasy tension. The technological was the stronger, of course, but the traditional was there - still functional, still exerting influence...
The accepted cultivated speech of the contemporary language that Pāṇini describes in his Aṣṭādhyāyī must have coexisted with more vernacular varieties of speech in which there were features belonging to the Middle Indo-Aryan division of the language group. Several facts support this view.
An equivalent dichotomy developed between advocates and procurators in some civil law countries; these two types did not always monopolize the practice of law, in that they coexisted with civil law notaries.
For a while, the week and the nundinal cycle coexisted, but by the time the week was officially adopted by Constantine in AD 321, the nundinal cycle had fallen out of use.
Many Sanskrit dramas also indicate that the language coexisted with Prakrits, spoken by multilingual speakers with a more extensive education.
All this suggests the possibility that in this area two different cultures coexisted.