agrarian society
Land-based civilization
An agrarian society is one whose economy and social structure center on farming and the cultivation of land.
Most people work in agriculture, land ownership determines wealth and status, and life follows seasonal rhythms: Before industrialization, nearly all human societies were agrarian.
The term often contrasts with industrial or post-industrial societies.
- barter tradeMoneyless commerce system
- subsistence farmingGrowing food for household
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- small holdingsModest agricultural plots
- feudalismLand-for-service social structure
tilling the soil · family farm · plowing · oral histories · crop rotation · growing season · harvest festivals · village councils · commons · folk traditions · peasantry · common land · sharecropping · landowners · lord of the manor · serfdom · tenant farmers · threshers
- pre-industrial lifefarming, handicrafts, traditional methods, manual labor, cottage industry
- societiescivilization, secret societies, nation, literary societies, mutual aid societies
- peasantryserfs, tenant farmers, villagers, common folk, laborers
- Chinese feudalismfeudal lords, peasants, peasantry, tenant farmers, serfs
- American HistoryAmerican Revolution, Revolutionary War, colonial era, founding fathers, Declaration of Independence
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
agrarian societyindustrial society
Civilization centered on manufacturing
agrarian societyindustrial society
Civilization centered on manufacturing