9 sentences with 'agricultural'
Example sentences and phrases with the word agricultural and other words derived from it.
• « The earliest agricultural sites emerged in the Fertile Crescent, the region encompassing Egypt along the Nile River, the Near East and Mesopotamia. »
• « Instead, the entire society of the Old Kingdom revolved around the production of agricultural surpluses from the Nile, efficiently catalogued and taxed by the royal bureaucracy and "spent" on the construction of huge temples and, eventually, tombs. »
• « The empire as a whole enjoyed levels of commercial and agricultural productivity not seen again until the 17th century. »
• « Centuries of contact with Rome itself had improved agricultural techniques among the Germanic peoples, leading to population growth. »
• « The state made great efforts to increase both agricultural productivity and the amount of cultivated land, especially in Mesopotamia. »
• « The medieval agricultural revolution had enormous long-term consequences for peasants and ultimately for European society as a whole, thanks to increased animal power and the effects of crop rotation, existing fields became much more productive. »
• « The population increase linked to the agricultural revolution had another consequence: beyond simply improving the lives of peasants and increasing family size, it led to the growth of towns and cities. »
• « The medieval agricultural revolution led to an expansion of population, urbanisation and economy, advances in education and scholarship resulted in higher literacy rates and a more sophisticated intellectual life, and Europe was free of large-scale invasions. »