GEOG 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Landscape, Demographic Transition, Breadfruit
16 Dec 2016
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The evolution of human geography: part 1 sept. 12th, 2016. Defining geography: 1) as an interest in knowing where we are, 2) an interest describing the characteristics of our world and 3) a knowledge of who/what lies beyond our own world. Geographic knowledge of the past examples: inuit snowdrift navigation uqalurait, Geography was first coined by eratosthenes. (cid:498)ge(cid:499) = the earth, (cid:498)grapho(cid:499) = to describe. Ancient greeks had 2 main geographic interests: topographic and mathematical observations. Topographic description: observing the physical features of an area and giving descriptions. Herodotus, strabo gives such descriptions in their books. Mathematical and astronomical observations: the belief that the earth is a sphere: eratosthenes calculated the circumference as 40,000 km. Greek realm because based on their calculation it was only a fraction of the circumference of the earth: they then divided the world into 4 on their map.
