This transition seems to have involved systems of gift exchange between distant peoples.
I am a warrior from a distant people, the English.
"They say Germans are very cool and distant people who only have formal ties with one another," she said slowly.
Scrying The art of seeing distant people and places by magic.
There was no one about except some distant people going home.
The harsh reality is that our hands are too full to rescue a distant people determined to murder one another.
Other, more distant people glimmer at the outside of her awareness.
It refers to people distant with regard to social relations.
You are giving us a closer view of people now less distant from us.
When a rise of ground shielded him from the distant people, he stood and walked again.