What is "preindustrial"

Usage examples of "preindustrial".

Most of Western Europe and much of the western Soviet Union, as well as two-thirds of the United States and Canada and the whole of Japan, were among the places plunged into the preindustrial age by their own leaders to save their people from enslavement or extinction at the hands of their own machines.

Over the millennia since teleportation and replication had become the norm humans had worked very hard on returning the world to a condition of wilderness, one that replicated as much as possible prehuman, much less preindustrial, conditions.

Smithing was nearly as vital as farming in a preindustrial economy and the number of tools that they were going to need prior to the beginning of the planting season was staggering.

Edmund, the whole basis for a decent preindustrial democracy or republic is the small farmer.

Romans were such a major factor in preindustrial military thought that paying more attention to them than, say, the Egyptians just made sense.

But between them, if the woman really knew anything, they might make one decent preindustrial doctor.

There was a short briefing in which they were solemnly informed that cutting and forming wood was the basis of industry in preindustrial civilization.

They got bred up for size in the preindustrial period and worked well as cart horses and the like.

Raqsidan on a world called Jaydugar, raised in an agrarian, preindustrial culture.

Tikal held almost fifty thousand people, a tremendous number for a preindustrial city.

Synthesis can move in and dominate the Mayan population, as you would any other preindustrial culture.

In the cities and townships lotteries were held every day, choosing the lucky citizens who would be given permits to tour the forests and sample the uncrowded life of preindustrial Japan.

Anyway, the architectural designs of preindustrial cathedrals are boring, and one night I found a diary of a seventeenth-century British priest.

The world had descended to a preindustrial environment with farmers scratching a toe-hold in the land, and armies fighting a thousand small battles with bandit gangs to hold the line and maintain some semblance of civilization.

The harvesting that Mike was engaged in would have been done by a team of six, at least, in preindustrial times.