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

Experts say our agrarian model of education was designed to get teens up early and home before dark to tend to the farm, but it is no longer relevant for most modern students.

From Scientific American

Violence ensued, and Mr. Khan quickly admitted defeat, moving Hyderabad’s largely poor, agrarian populace from feudal domination into a modern democracy.

From New York Times