The First Modern Geographer Of The World - 1206 Words

Essay Test 1 Before, there was a word â€Å"geography† happen, this branch of knowledge still related to other branches of knowledge; for example, mathematics, geometry, astrology, astronomy, even if magic. So, geographer in the past worked in many branches of knowledge. From history of many countries showed that there were many famous geographer travel to explore the world or find the answer of measure and coordinate of the world, such as Ptolemy; he is famous in Astronomer, Cartographer, and Mathematician; he is an earliest geographer of the world; Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, he is the first modern geographer. His famous work is â€Å"Cosmos†, it is a book which is about globe map. In addition, the purpose of the†¦show more content†¦Nowadays, geography helps human to understand the places in many parts of world. In addition, it makes a word â€Å"globalization† happen, because people around the world communicate to each ot her; to do business, trading, or using social media; although, they stay at opposite side of the world. In history of many countries, there are history about trading and it showed that many countries had been trade with other countries around the world; especially many countries in Europe and Asia. The reason why those countries have to trade each other, because each countries wanted the goods of other countries, because their country could not produce that goods or other reasons. After that, the merchants would bring those goods to their country and sold it to people in their country. However, because of technology in that time, merchants had to use long time to travel and transport those goods to their country. In the other hand, at present, the development of communication, transportation, education, and higher-technology influence to people life around the world, we cannot reject it, because our living depend on these things, and globalization is happened. Globalization make the world closer, we can communicate and manage many things easier and shorter time. For example, the production of a shirt, it is made by cotton from the United States, but it is not made in the United States; the United States sent