The pre-modern Islamic world produced gazetteers.

Stupas designed and constructed in Sri Lanka are the largest brick structures known to the pre-modern world.

In the pre-modern world, slaves and prisoners often made up the bulk of workers; labor was also associated with particular classes.

This is particularly useful in the context of the pre-modern world of weak states.

So by taking a trip back nearly three hundred years we could say that we have covered the pre-modern world thoroughly enough.

They are probably the largest brick structures known to the pre-modern world.

Elinor wouldn't have had a hope in this more familiar, pre-modern world in which manners are turned into caricature.

He came to represent a lost, pre-modern world; he became an icon for xenophobic national movements.

In the pre-modern world, it was often the case that 80% of the population was employed in agriculture to feed a population of 100%, with a low energy budget.

The exhibit proposes that time is to modern life what space was to the pre-modern world: an uncontainable, unknowable mystery, unsolvable even by scientific study.