Sentences with phrase «peasant agrarian society»
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.
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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.