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Meaning of "were precursors"

Were precursors means were predecessors or earlier versions of something. It refers to things or events that came before and paved the way for something else to exist or happen. It can be used to describe historical developments, scientific advancements, or cultural influences that served as a foundation or starting point for subsequent developments

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Ideograms were precursors of logographic writing systems.
Some of the themes in his music were precursors of gangsta rap.
Both organizations were precursors of what would become the modern institutions of public health.
There was initially some doubt as to whether the earthquakes were precursors to an eruption.
Such schools were precursors of free public education.
Individuals who migrated for educational purposes and were precursors of student migratory fluxes.
These were precursors of the great Antichrist.
Votive altar arrangements of flowers for Buddhist temples were precursors.
These reserves were precursors to national forests.
At that time, the French were precursors.
But there were precursors to that.
Architectural contributions from Germany include the Carolingian and Ottonian styles, which were precursors of Romanesque.
A clear majority of the seizures were precursors used to manufacture methamphetamine.
They were precursors of the Pilgrims who later crossed the Atlantic to New England.
These new modes of cooperation were precursors to universal access to medical care.

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Court Jews were precursors to the modern financier or Secretary of the Treasury.
It turns out they were Precursors.
These productions were precursors to the immersive theatre developed by Punchdrunk and others.
The Netherlands and the United Kingdom were precursors in this regard.
These intellectual circles were precursors to the Royal Society and included natural philosophers and experimenters.
The Bombes were not general-purpose computers but were precursors to modern-day computers.
They were precursors to later High Church views.
Isolation and xenophobia, it should be remembered, were precursors to racism.
It is possible that they were precursors to the Panathenaic prize amphorae.
The diagram indicates sub-clones and sub-sub-clones that were precursors to the tumors.
Both institutions were precursors to the University of Nashville.
Instruments TISS or TISS-28, used in three studies, were precursors of the NAS.
The Toltecs were precursors to the Aztecs.
These were precursors of the three-jaw chucks used on lathes today.
The ERS-1 and ERS-2 satellites were precursors that tested the techniques used by CryoSat.
There were precursors of this in the sociobiology of Edward O. Wilson b.
There were precursors to the Akai MPC 60.

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