... 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 theoretical but ... disputed and rejected, but Erastosthenes estimates were actually incredibly accurate and realistic in an age of little technology. There is little literature on the period following and the story of the expansion of geography isn't picked up again until the Middle Ages. This ... nobility the seco...

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