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Nature of Geography
The term geography has been coined from two Greek words “Geo” meaning the earth and ―Graphe”meaning to write or describe. Thus geography literally means the description of the earth.the word geographia was first used by a Greek scholar Erastothenes in 3rd century B.C. The literal meaning of the term geography is very general in nature and does not specify what is to written or described about the earth which is full of innumerable things of the diversenature.Geography has a longer genealogy than any science. The earliest records of mans interest in nature of the physical world around him contain observations and speculations of geographical type. In the ancient period geography grow out of explorations, mapping of areas known and the speculation about the material collected. It is difficult to trace the development, diffusion and spread of geographical knowledge during the prehistoric periods. Although geography began as a modern discipline only during the 19th century, there is a consensus that all civilizations contributed to the development of geographical concepts. Greeks and Romans, the pioneers of prehistoric ideas fallowed two distinct traditions in there geographical work. One was the mathematical tradition and other was the literary tradition. The fall of Roman Empire marked the decline of interest in geographical knowledge. No science
including geography could flourish during this Dark Age. At this stage geographical knowledge passed on to the Arabs who were then leading trading nations and recorded far and wide. Many of the Greek works were translated into Arabic and thus the Greek tradition was also kept alive
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