HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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Classifying plants
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Classifying animals
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Writing about Earth
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Writing about the stars
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Detailed explanation-1: -’Geography’ derives from the Greek – geographia, literally “Earth-writing", that is, description or writing about the Earth. The first person to use the word geography was Eratosthenes (276–194 BC).
Detailed explanation-2: -Geography is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments. Geographers explore both the physical properties of Earth’s surface and the human societies spread across it.
Detailed explanation-3: -The ancient Greek scholar Eratosthenes is commonly called the “father of geography” for he was the first to use the word geography and he had a small-scale notion of the planet that led him to be able to determine the circumference of the earth.
Detailed explanation-4: -The word geography is derived from the Latin word “geographia” and the similar Greek word “geōgraphia, ‘’ which essentially mean to describe the earth’s surface.
Detailed explanation-5: -That knowledge became known as geography, a term first used as the title of Eratosthenes of Cyrene’s book Geographica in the 3rd century bce.