Ancient Greece
Portion of the Mediterranean sea separating the Greek and Anatolian peninsulas
Aegean Sea
Coined by Eratosthenes "Earth writing"
What is Geography
This teacher/student pair differed somewhat on their beliefs about permanence and change
Plato and Aristotle
Islamic scholar, traveled to India, China, and Africa
Ibn Battutah
Uncovered the circumference of the Earth using merely a stick
Eratosthenes
"father of social science"
Ibn Khaldun
Johannes Vermeer
an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
humanism
map in Hereford cathedral depicting earth as a disc with Jerusalem at its center
Mappa Mundi
Three sub-fields of geography according to Bernhardus Varenius?
Absolute, Relative, Comparative
How many volumes in Strabo of Amasia's Geography
17
Name of the man supposedly depicted in Vermeer's "the geographer"
Bernhard Varenius