geography

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  • 1900 BCE

    Babylonians

    The Babylonians were the first cartographers
  • 800 BCE

    Greeks

    In this years greeks started to develop some concepts about geography
  • 500 BCE

    No more flat Earth

    By this year most Greeks knew the Earth was round.
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    In this year the great philosopher was born he also helped a lot with geography.
  • 285 BCE

    Erastosthenes book

    In this year Erastosthenes created his first book in this book he explained what geography is and some basic concepts that we know today.
  • 276 BCE

    Eratosthenes

    In this year Eratosthenes was born. He is known as the father of geography and he essentially created the discipline of geography which is the study that studies the Earth and Its atmosphere.
  • Period: 276 BCE to

    History of Geography

  • 1401

    Age of Discovery

    The age of discovery is one of the most important events in history because a lot of places were discovered and colonized
  • 1492

    European colonization

    Europeans started to colonize many parts of the world, they also discovered many places