Like high priests in a primitive society, only a small group of people knew how to speak to the machine.
It smacked a little too much of a primitive society.
This primitive society had never encountered such a weapon before.
Primitive societies deal much better with death than we do.
You don't find either of those qualities much in a primitive society.
They had certainly been fast, incredibly so for an ancient and primitive society like this one.
A distant star: a group of scientists sent to examine its primitive society.
Teheran, by contrast was a poor and primitive society in those days.
Our homeland, on the other hand, is still struggling to emerge from a primitive society.
This is not a primitive society making progress toward mechanization.