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

Other large-scale transformations of the past — like the agrarian and industrial revolutions — were similarly catastrophic in their own ways.

From Salon

The book starts out with the agrarian poet Wendell Berry posing a riddle of sorts to you.

From Seattle Times