rural society

Table of Contents

Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics

Read Next

Group of colorful apartments on Caminito Street, La Boca, Buenos Aries, Argentina.

How Do Countries Choose Their Capital Cities?

Tilled farmland. (farming, dirt, soil conservation)

Could We Lose All the Soil on Earth?

Rows of tassled corn in a Nebraska field. (agriculture)

Pro and Con: GMOs

Beet. Beta vulgaris. Sugar beet. Two rows of harvested beets.

18 Questions About Farming Answered

Sydney Opera House, Port Jackson, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.

Why New York Is Called "The Big Apple" and How 8 Other Famous Cities Got Their Nicknames

Discover

Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Jean-Francois Janinet, 1777. Color etching and engraving with gold leaf printed on two sheets, 30x13.5 in.

Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?

Hemp (Cannabis sativa).

9 Mind-Altering Plants

Monitor. Varanus salvadorii is a monitor lizard found in New Guinea can grows to 2.7 metres (9 ft.) aka Tree crocodile, Crocodile monitor, Salvadori's monitor, artellia, reptile

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Lizards and Turtles

Battle of Puebla. Cinco de Mayo. General Porfirio Diaz leads Mexican cavalry to victory against the French lead by General Charles Lorencez at Puebla, Mexico April 2, 1867. Oil on canvas, 1902. May 5, 1862. General Ignacio Zaragoza

Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

7 Deadliest Weapons in History

Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

Amendments 1-10 to the Constitution of the United States constitute what is known as the Bill of Rights on an American flag.

What Is the Emoluments Clause?

rural society: Facts & Related Content

Written and fact-checked by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As	rural cultures

Topics

village hamlet origins of agriculture primitive culture urban culture city culture population disability culture civil society World Heritage site pastoral communities in India utopia hunter-gatherer human migration city-region nomadism

Dig Deeper: More Articles That Discuss This Topic

Key People

Marc Bloch

French historian

Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin

American sociologist

Cobbett, detail of a painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

William Cobbett

British journalist

Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de Crèvecoeur.

Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de Crèvecoeur

French-American author