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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

The change South Korea has undergone is seismic: in a generation, it has gone from a war-torn agrarian society to a developed economy.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

Rooted in agrarian traditions, the term originates from the Old French glener and the Latin glennare, meaning "to gather."

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2025

International economists often describe South Korea as the single most impressive example of what free markets, democratic government, and elbow grease can do to transform a small agrarian backwater into a global powerhouse.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden