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

Famed for its farming, cheeses and wine, this hilly, rural countryside feels cut off from modernity: an agrarian past perfectly preserved in an uncertain present.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

Through these depictions, the show tries to tell the histories of the nomadic, tribal and agrarian communities for whom resilient survival was the leitmotif and cloth a way of narrating their marginalised experiences.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 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