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

My parents, born in agrarian villages in colonized Nigeria, had settled there in the mid-1990s as middle-class academics.

From New York Times

The 42-year-old farmer has broadened the Centre's appeal beyond its agrarian base with a promise to decentralise government functions and bring jobs and prosperity to rural parts of Norway.

From Reuters