... understanding today, and relate it to these changes. Explaining in more detail the periods and writers mentioned briefly above. Also drawing conclusions on the more significant changes in the shaping of the discipline of geography and the nature of the relationship between these changes and the expansion ... back as far as ancient Greece, a time of great ideological and philosophical thought. Holt-Jensen, in his book Geography: History and Concepts, notes that "geographical thinking is older than the term geography'- (Holt-Jensen, 1988:11). The Ancients Greeks interests were mainly theo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate