ILST 2655 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Critical Geography, Friedrich Ratzel, Juan De La Cosa

• School: York University
• Department: International Studies
• Course: ILST 2655
• Professor: Stanislav Kirschbaum

Document Summary

Egyptians: days of the year, measurement of land areas, orientation of buildings. Babylonians: focussed on astronomy (night and day) and land surveys (what they could do with the land) 1200 bce eastern medittaranean: navigation, climate differences north and south of where you are. The wo(cid:396)d (cid:862)geog(cid:396)aphy(cid:863) was (cid:272)oi(cid:374)ed (cid:271)y e(cid:396)atosthe(cid:374)es who was a (cid:373)athe(cid:373)ati(cid:272)al geog(cid:396)aphe(cid:396) Romans: contrarily to the greeks they did not try to understand the environment around them but they used the natural environment to build, ptolemy made another map that shows what you will encounter along the way. After the bce christianity in introduced and influences the view of the world. The impact is so great that maps indicate where your focus should be: beatus is a spanish priest who gives us the earliest christian map of the world (early middle ages. 730-798: the travels of marco polo is important because it connected geography with human existence (he took pasta to italy!)