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

As a primarily agrarian country, India is particularly vulnerable to climate change.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 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

Tres Marias was one of the last haciendas in the South to be expropriated under the agrarian reform.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende