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First geographers that did more than make maps; interested in physical features
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Greek
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Coined term 'geography'; calculated Earth's surface
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Erastosthenes
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Determined Earth is round based on lunar eclipses
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Aristotle
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Wrote books on human and physical geography of Persia
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Herodotus
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Romans
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Wrote 'Geographia', described culturs all over the world
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Strabo
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Considered Earth as center of universe;
(1) created 3 maps of Earth's surface
(2) calculated coordinates of 8,000 places
(3) developed lattitude and longitude
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Ptolemy
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Renaissance
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Wrote 'Geographia geeneralis'
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Benhardus Varenius
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Divided geography into 6 branches
(1) physical (2) mathematical (3) moral (4) political (5) commercial (6) theological
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Immanuel Kant
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'Kosmos' ; examines geology and phys,
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Alexander von Humboldt
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Theorized distribution of human infuenced by nature
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Fredrich Ratzel
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Developed concept of regional geography
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Carl Ritter
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American
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Geomorphologist, founded AAG
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William Morris Davis
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