Sentences with phrase «in agrarian societies»

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.

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.»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

In addition, there are words and phrases that do not easily translate from one language to another, such as idiomatic expressions, word usages from ancient agrarian societies and so on.

It is a test of whether republican liberty established in a remote agrarian backwater of the world in the 18th century shall prove able or willing to confront successfully the age of mass society and international revolution.

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.

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.

A good place to start is by understanding, as Crossan does, Jesus» world as an agrarian or peasant society in contrast to our modem industrial society.

Comparing the climate record with organized agrarian state level societies in Mexico, Kennett and Marwan looked at the rise and falls of three states — Teotihuacán from 100 BCE to 650 CE, Toltec from 900 to 1150 CE and the Aztec Empire from 1400 to 1519.

This is consistent with recent findings that AMY2B copy number is highest in modern dog populations originating from geographic regions with prehistoric agrarian societies, and lowest from regions where humans did not rely on agriculture for subsistence34 and supports the claim that the expansion occurred after initial domestication (possibly after the migration of dingoes to Australia 3,500 — 5,000 years ago) 34.

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.

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.

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.

In Jefferson's era, the United States was an agrarian society with large estates in the south employing slave labor and small self - sufficient family farms in the nortIn Jefferson's era, the United States was an agrarian society with large estates in the south employing slave labor and small self - sufficient family farms in the nortin the south employing slave labor and small self - sufficient family farms in the nortin the north.

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.

As humans began the switch from hunter / gatherers to agrarian societies they also included the domestication of wild wolves to assist them in many ways.

Veterinary medicine, however, is steeped in the Agrarian world view rendering certain values and ideals that while successful in the agrarian model are not efficient in today's information driven society.

«The Oroqen's history is reflective of the vast changes that have happened across China over the last few decades, as the country has moved from a largely agrarian nation to an industrial powerhouse drawing in numerous ethnic groupings to present an image of a diverse and harmonious society.

Nepal then was 5 million living in totally agrarian society, now 25 million.

Patterns of climate really mattered to people back in the 1600's - in fact it was often a matter of life and death due to the agrarian nature of their society.

This made some sense in a rural, agrarian society where landowners might own large tracts of land.