HGP100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Thomas Robert Malthus, Inductive Reasoning, Sandwich Generation
17 Dec 2013
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Human geography the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment and the spatial organization of human activities. Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related to each other than distant things. Greece initiated two major geographic traditions: literary: written descriptions of the known world. Eratosthenes (aka the father of geography) coined this term: mathematical: ptolemy utilized the longitude and latitude system, but hipparchus invented the system. The european decline: medieval europeans believed that god had designed the earth for humans telelogy, they knew little about their immediate surroundings. Rather than use the greek literary and mathematical system, they used a t-o. Map which is based on the cross/religious theory. During this time, other countries were formulating their own ideas of maps. European resurgence: creation of map printing technology and the establishment of centers of geographic analysis are factors that contributed to the resurgence.
