pre-colonial
Adjective
Meaning
pre-colonial (not comparable)
Alternative form of precolonial
Examples
His best-selling book which explores how racist colonial writers buried information about sophisticated Indigenous land management and farming and fishing technologies, has radically reshaped our understanding of pre-colonial Aboriginal societies.
In pre-colonial times, the Oba of Eko (Lagos) also known as the Eleko of Eko governed the traditional structure of the political system of Eko (Lagos).
"From the Inca to the Bourbons: New writings on pre-colonial and colonial Peru," Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 12, Number 3, Winter 2011 * Restall, Matthew.
Frederick Douglass Opie, Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America (Columbia University Press, 2008), chapter 2 Vegetables, fruits, spices, and herbs were foreign to the typical pre-colonial European diet.
In the old days, GAM leaders depicted independence as the inalienable birthright of all Acehnese, inherited from their ancestors in the pre-colonial sultanate.
The answer in the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial times is categorical, clear and unambiguous.