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The History of Geography

By acmpp9
  • 500 BCE

    First map created

    First map created
    The Babylonian Map of the World was incised on a clay tablet.
  • 200 BCE

    Compass invented

    Compass invented
    The compass was invented by the Chinese, and the first ones were made of lodestone.

  • Prime Meridian established

    Prime Meridian established
    The International Meridian Conference selected the Greenwich Meridian as an international standard for zero degrees longitude.

  • National Geographic Society is founded

    National Geographic Society is founded
    This organization was founded with the intent to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge.

  • Early days of GIS

    Early days of GIS
    Roger Tomlinson is famed for being a pioneer in the field of Geographic Information System (GIS).

  • Five themes of geography

    Five themes of geography
    The five themes of geography were developed by the National Council for Geographic Education and the Association of American Geographers to help with geography education at the K-12 levels.

  • National geography standards established

    National geography standards established
    Replacing the five themes of geography, a set of eighteen learning standards was created by the National Council for Geographic Education.