agrarian

This framework also helps explain why agrarian societies, which normally benefit from living spread out, sometimes gathered in cities despite the financial and social costs.

Sparta was an agrarian oligarchy whose muscle was its hoplite horde.

Famed for its farming, cheeses and wine, this hilly, rural countryside feels cut off from modernity: an agrarian past perfectly preserved in an uncertain present.

They not only chronicled how the workplace changed as the U.S. evolved from an agrarian to industrial to digital economy, but also had a hand in shaping those changes.

The books depict events from the Civil War to the present, moving among an assortment of characters from the agrarian region’s closely intertwined families.