Sentences with phrase «agrarian society»
An agrarian society is a type of society in which the primary means of livelihood is farming and agriculture. It is based on cultivating crops and raising farm animals, with most people living in rural areas and engaged in agricultural activities to sustain themselves and their community. Full definition
Acknowledging the perception that children used to be an asset in agrarian societies, Caplan looks at the data to show that even in traditional societies, «kids don't pay.»
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By the Civil War's end, the United States had begun its shift from a disjointed agrarian society to an industrialized one knit together by corporate and financial organizations as much as by democratic ones.
It almost entirely lacked the hallmarks of a traditional post-feudal agrarian society.
He recognized that passages in the book of Deuteronomy relating to business ethics belonged to a bygone age; he refused to let the rules of a primitive Jewish agrarian society have binding force upon the progressive, modern, and urban Geneva of his time.
We were a primarily agrarian society, but even early general stores were run by families.
In any case, what do the writings of iron age, middle eastern agrarian society have to do with us now?
Impoverished people in underdeveloped agrarian societies, newly aware of the abundance enjoyed by the people of advanced industrial societies with a long history of civilized development, are demanding at once the benefits of civilization without creating the instruments necessary to produce them.
Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge rocked Cambodia back to the stone age with their vision of a totally self - sufficient agrarian society created by totalitarian force in cut time.
Wheat (Triticum spp.) is one of the founder crops that likely drove the Neolithic transition to sedentary agrarian societies in the Fertile Crescent more than 10,000 years ago.
In the early agrarian society that flourished in Cyprus, stores of grain were a likely free lunch for mice.
Among other methods, this is done through analysis of the period from the start of the 1900s to the end of the 1960s when Sweden was transformed from a mainly agrarian society to an industrial nation and a developed welfare state.
Geography also played a huge role; nomads living in the Eurasian Steppe influenced nearby agrarian societies, spreading intense forms of offensive warfare out from the steppe belt.
In an effort to rapidly convert the country from a peasant agrarian society to a modern industrial one, Chairman Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward had pulled millions of people away from farms to build roads, canals, railroads, and steel plants.
Falk, a partner with Illinois - based Focus Consulting Group, reminded the audience of (mostly) financial advisers that the concept of retirement is still relatively young — about 120 years — going back to agrarian societies when bodies gave out earlier than minds do in today's service economy, and life expectancies were far lower.
It is believed when human civilization moved towards agrarian societies, dogs were selectively bred for smaller size and more docile behavior.
Nepal remains an essentially agrarian society, nine tenths of the population live from hand to mouth in relatively inaccessible rural areas practising a style of subsistence farming that has altered little in hundreds of years.
It sure wasn't emitted by China or India, which were agrarian societies well into the twentieth century.
Did you know there was once a thriving agrarian society on that continent?
«This kind of information is not only relevant for ancient agrarian societies, it might also impact modern societies.»
A look that has roots in agrarian societies, a crown's symbolism is very much tied to the land and the seasons, and has always had great symbolic meaning.
Rather than follow the Stalin model of turning an agrarian society of Russia into a state - owned industrial superpower like the USSR - killing millions of your own people in the process, incidentally - Myerson suggests that the government own all businesses by buying the stocks and bonds of all businesses as an «investment» in the private sector.
We are no longer an agrarian society; however, the intent is the same.
Because He lived in an agrarian society.
In agrarian societies, bad weather or invaders could quickly ruin your harvest, and so many would quickly store and save the first portion of the harvest, and then later, as the harvest became more bountiful, give of the bounty to whatever deity they worshiped.
They are not provisions for our day, but in the setting of agrarian society in the tenth century B.C. they show an admirable sense of justice, moral responsibility, and humane concern for the underprivileged.
Living in an agrarian society, most Israelites worked from sun - up to sun - down, six days a week, taking only the Sabbath (Saturday) off as a day of rest.
It was the easiest day for farmers in our agrarian society to get to the polls.
It suggests they matured faster than modern humans, who tend to be weaned at 30 months in hunter - gatherer and agrarian societies.
The result: wheat crops that are biochemically different from the virgin wheat of agrarian society.
You won't see an agrarian society.
At a conference in Washington last week, a colleague was surprised to hear that the long summer break dates back to our agrarian society and the need for young folk to help their families bring in the crops.
Given an agrarian society with poor transportation, schools could only draw enough students to populate one - room schoolhouses.
This model was developed for the agrarian society of the past when students helped on the family farm and were needed at home during the busiest times of the year.
Boys are, in many ways, better suited than girls for work in the information age but are saddled with an educational model based on an agrarian society.
«Our current model of schools is a legacy of a historical system, which was created to address the shift from an agrarian society to an industrial one.
A joint family was better suited for India's agrarian society, where efficient division of labor for farm chores and a lack of good transportation contributed to members sticking together.
South Africa, which had been an agrarian society just barely making contact with the rest of the world, became an international industrial society.
As humans began the switch from hunter / gatherers to agrarian societies they also included the domestication of wild wolves to assist them in...