agricultural society
Crop-based community
An agricultural society is a civilization whose economy and social structure center on farming rather than hunting, gathering, or industry.
The shift to agriculture enabled permanent settlements, population growth, and social hierarchies.
The term also refers to organizations that promote farming interests: The county agricultural society hosts the annual fair.
- county fairRegional harvest celebration
- plowingTurning earth for crops
- threshing floorSurface for grain separation
- growing seasonTime crops can mature
- compostingDecomposing organic matter deliberately
irrigation · land reform · village council · crop rotation · research stations · rural infrastructure · agroforestry · soil fertility · seed saving · pest control · harvest festivals · barn raising · peasant class · farm loans · community markets · mechanized farming · rural electrification · organic farming
- Neolithic Balkanstells, Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Moldavia
- rural Americanafarm, church, farmer, covered bridges, country stores
- Utopiaperfect world, utopian fiction, harmony, communal living, shared property
- Gothic kingdomsGoths, Theodoric, Alaric, Ostrogoths, royal succession
- Nok cultureNigeria, elaborate hairstyles, iron smelting
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Civilization centered on manufacturing
information society · knowledge economy · service economy · digital society · capitalist society
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