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 • Nov. 26, 2025

In the nation’s earliest years, a largely agrarian society where things moved at the speed of a horse at best, each city conducted its own financial business, such as it was.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2025

The agrarian rebellion of the 1880s and 1890s was led by farmers at a time when literacy was far from universal and rural areas were incredibly isolated by today’s standards.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025

Through these depictions, the show tries to tell the histories of the nomadic, tribal and agrarian communities for whom resilient survival was the leitmotif and cloth a way of narrating their marginalised experiences.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2025

Perhaps an agrarian or pastoral civilization, with less culture and less people would be better.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov