antecedent

That was antecedent to this event.

antecedents and consequences of the war

Those were events antecedent to the revolution.

her early life and antecedents have been traced.

the antecedent events that prompt you to break a diet.

No one knew the antecedents of the mysterious stranger.

some antecedents to the African novel might exist in Africa's oral traditions.

Some of the antecedents of World War II lie in economic conditions in Europe following World War I.

His mechanical calculating engines were the antecedents of the modern computer.

from “The Road To Tycho”, a collection of articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096

Thus "DGT cores" are an antecedent of the microlithic tradition in China, East Asia, North Asia and North America.