Question

ap continuity and change
how does this image show the changing relationship that people had with animals as a result of the agricultural revolution?
the domestication of animals. although farming often gets top billing in discussions of the agricultural revolution, the raising of animals was equally important, for they provided meat, pulling power, transportation (in the case of horses and camels), and manure. animal husbandry also made possible pastoral societies, which were largely dependent on their domesticated animals. this rock - art painting from the sahara (now southeastern algeria) dates to somewhere around 4000 b.c.e. and depicts an early pastoral community. the white ovals represent a group of huts. (musée de lhomme, paris/erich lessing art resource, ny)
the particular animals central to pastoral economies differed from region to region. the domestication of horses by 4000 b.c.e. and the mastery of horseback - riding skills several thousand years later enabled the growth of pastoral peoples all across the steppes of central asia by the first millennium b.c.e. although organized primarily in kinship - based clans or tribes, these nomads periodically created powerful military confederations, which played a major role in the history of eurasia for thousands of years. in the inner asian, arabian, and saharan deserts, domestication of camels made possible the human occupation of forbidding environments. (see zooming in: the arabian camel, chapter 7, page 296.) the grasslands south of the sahara and in parts of eastern africa supported cattle - raising pastoralists. in the americas, llamas and alpacas were tremendously important in the economy of andean civilizations, but only in a few pockets in the andes did human communities rely as heavily on their domesticated animals as did the pastoral peoples of the afro - eurasian world.
the relationship between nomadic herders and their farming neighbors has been one of the enduring themes of afro - eurasian history. frequently, it was a relationship of conflict, as pastoral people, unable to produce their own agricultural products, were attracted to the wealth and sophistication of agrarian societies and sought access to their richer grazing lands as well as their food crops and manufactured products. the biblical story of the deadly rivalry between two brothers—cain, a “tiller of the ground,” and abel, a “keeper of sheep”—reflects this ancient conflict, which persisted well into modern times. but not all was conflict between pastoral and agricultural peoples. the more peaceful exchange of technologies, ideas, products, and people across the ecological frontier between pastoral and agricultural societies also served to enrich and to change both sides.
within pastoral societies, the relative equality of men and women, characteristic of most paleolithic societies, persisted, perhaps because women’s work that milk, and in producing textiles such as felt, which was widely used in central asia for tents, beds, rugs, and clothing. among the saka pastoralists in what is now azerbaijan, women rode horses and participated in battles along with men.

Explanation:

The image is a rock - art painting showing an early pastoral community. It reflects the change in relationships due to animal domestication as part of the Agricultural Revolution. The pastoral lifestyle, with people interacting with animals, is depicted. This shows how animal domestication led to a distinct pastoral way of life and changed social and economic relationships.

Answer:

The image shows an early pastoral community through rock - art, indicating how animal domestication led to a new way of life and changed social and economic relationships as part of the Agricultural Revolution.