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

In the nation’s earliest years, a largely agrarian society where things moved at the speed of a horse at best, each city conducted its own financial business, such as it was.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2025

The change South Korea has undergone is seismic: in a generation, it has gone from a war-torn agrarian society to a developed economy.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 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

The issue was agrarian versus commercial sources of wealth.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis