The relationship between human beings and horses
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introduction

I : A flimsy relationship during prehistory and antiquity :
1) Prehistoric men and horses
2) The breaking in of horses
3) Legends and myths

II : History of the war with horses :
1) The greek cavalry
2) Alexander the Great
3) Knighthood
4) Napoleon the Ist

III : Leisure and art :
1) Tournaments
2) Games in the middle-Ages
3) Art, académies and compétitions
4) Horse shows

IV : Economy based on horses :
1) The beginning of the trade
2) Cinema and films
3) Horse shows
4) Horse races
5) Jobs using horses

annexe : photos

conclusion

Bibliography

Introduction :

Relationships between human beings and horses have existed since prehistory. First horses, which were called Eohippus, appeared one million of years before human beings. During this period, horses were different than nowadays. In fact, they were smaller than current horses and they lived in forest. Then, because of the climat, they had to live out of forests and thank to that, their morphology changed in order to escape from their predators : Equus caballus, the first "true" horse was born.

Men and particulary, the first human beings, hunted it for a long time and as a consequence, relationships between human beings and horses were flimsy. With time, this relationship has improved thanks to two elements : first, horses'kind character, then, some riders will have tried to understand horses.

Nowadays, we can notice that there are more horsy people, riders and horse activities. However, we now that horses were often used as a tool according to the context and the period they lived in, that's why, we are going to answer these questions :

"Why have human beings broken in horses ?"
"What about this relationship nowadays ?"

As a conséquence, we will, explain the évolution of this relationship from prehistory to nowadays

 

Conclusion

From Prehistory to nowadays, relationships between human beings and horses have improved a lot. At the beginning of the world, horses were considered by people as preys because of their flesh and of their coat.
Then, after a period of hunt of horses, buman beings discovered the real nature of these animals. They used their qualities and their strengths for works such as field works, but also in art, for leisure, like horse racing, during wars and for trade. This was the beginning of a real relationship.
Nowadays, things are different. Horses are no longer used for trade and wars. But they carry on playing an important role for leisure and art. lndeed, lots of people are now interested in these wonderful animals. A growing number of people love horse-riding. Today, horses corne back into fashion, that is why they are often used in films and shows. Horses play now an important part in our society, which shows the new strong relationship between these animals and us, human beings.
Since the dawn of time, horses have always fascinated human beings, and we hope they will go on for a long time.

 

Bibliography

We create this work thanks to several books, articles, web sites such as :
- Bertrand De PERTHUIS, le Larousse du cheval, Larousse 1998.
- Emmanuelle DE MONLEON, Destins de chevaux, Proxima 2001
- Pierre ENOFF, Le nouveau manuel du cavalier, Solar 2001
- Sibylle LUISE BINDER and Gabričle KARCHER, La vie fascinante des chevaux, Larousse 2002
- Jan FRAUZE, Cheval, amour et passion, Favre 2002
- Catherine BOLAC and Pierre MIRISKI, Chevaux et poneys, Rustica Editions 2004.
- Several articles of Cheval-magasine from August 2001 to January 2004.
- http://www.ifrance.com/johistoire/pages/sportantique.html
- http://www.agoca.com/asp/article