AP Human Geography: Unit 1

First person to say the Earth was a sphere

Figured it out by the phases of the moon

First person to calculate the circumference

of the Earth

First person to use the word "geography"

Forerunner of longitude and latitude

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

Designed the first modern atlas

First modern environmentalist

Cultural Landscapes

Gathered by observations, interpretations and interviews

Mathematic techniques- Numerical Data

The science of map making