AP Human Geography: Unit 1

First person to say the Earth was a sphere

Figured it out by the phases of the moon

(a)  

First person to calculate the circumference

of the Earth

First person to use the word "geography"

(a)  

Forerunner of longitude and latitude

(a)  

First Arabic geographer and cartographer to create a map of the world

(a)  

Designed the first modern atlas

(a)  

First modern environmentalist

(a)  

Cultural Landscapes

(a)  

Gathered by observations, interpretations and interviews

(a)  

Mathematic techniques- Numerical Data

(a)  

The science of map making

(a)