An agrarian (or agricultural) society is one relying for its subsistence on the cultivation of crops through the use of plows and draft animals. The first agrarian societies arose approximately 5000 to 6,000 y.a. in Mesopotamia and Egypt and slightly later in China and India. From the time when agrarian societies first emerged until the present day, the majority of persons who have ever lived have done so according to the agrarian way of life.
