7A - History of Geography

Who is the first person to use geography to do a map?

• Steve Jobs
• Julius Caesar
• Eratosthenes of Greece
• Potelemy of Egypt

What Did Ptolemy Created?

• Grid System
• The Geocentric
• Magnetic Compass
• None Of this

where was Ptolemy from

• greece
• Egypt
• italy
• Scotland

Who is considered the father of geography?

• Christopher Colombus
• Ptolemy of Egypt
• Eratosthenes of Greece
• Yi-fu Tuan

What was the nikname of "Eratosthenes"

• The father of the evil
• The father of geometry
• The father of geography
• The father of nature

Why is geography constantly changing and improving.

• We are in the 21st century.
• Everyday new people are coming up with new theories.
• We have better materials to make hypthesis, one example is the guitar
• We are constantly getting smarter as everyday passes.

Who was Ptolemy?

• A painter
• Kanye West
• Mathematician
• A biologist

When geography was made?

• 2000 to 2021
• c.100 CE to c. 170 CE
• c.275 BCE -c. 194 BCE
• 20th century

When was the first historical record of the magnetic compass ?

• 940
• 200
• 1040
• 1090

what was one of the thing Ptolemy knew/worked?

• doctor
• mathematican
• scientist
• architect