agrarian

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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.

From Science Daily

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

From The Wall Street Journal

Following the devastation of the Korean War and lacking natural resources, the country turned to its people’s work ethic to lift it out of agrarian poverty.

From Washington Times

By agrarian democracy, Jefferson really meant an Eden in which "planters" like Bacon were the real "patriots," where rebellions and Indigenous genocide and wealth through African enslavement were patriotic callings.

From Salon

The New York Tribune, Horace Greeley’s newspaper, played a key role in forming what was intended as a utopian, agrarian colony.

From Seattle Times