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

That’s devastating for these largely agrarian countries, where farmers rely entirely on the rains.

From New York Times

But his coalition, which ranges from the left to agrarian conservatives, is split over how far to liberalise the law.

From BBC

That threat is existential and highly documented: namely, the digital revolution has done to the analog world of art, media and communication what the industrial revolution did to agrarian and handicraft economies a century before.

From Los Angeles Times