THE ANCIENT ORIGINSTHE ANCIENT ORIGINS & & PERSPECTIVESPERSPECTIVES

OF OF GEOGRAPHYGEOGRAPHY

DR. DUKUZUMURENYIDR. DUKUZUMURENYI

IITHE ANCIENT ORIGINS THE ANCIENT ORIGINS

OF OF WORLD GEOGRAPHYWORLD GEOGRAPHY

ANCIENT ORIGINSANCIENT ORIGINS THE GREEKS THE GREEKS

WROTE THAT THE WROTE THAT THE WORLD’S OLDEST WORLD’S OLDEST RACE OF MEN RACE OF MEN DEVELOPED ALL DEVELOPED ALL OF THE SCIENCES, OF THE SCIENCES, INCLUDING INCLUDING GEOGRAPHY.GEOGRAPHY.

HERODOTUS 484 B.C. - 432 B.C.

HERODOTUS , GREEK HISTORIAN 484 B.C. - 432 B.C.

ANCIENT ORIGINSANCIENT ORIGINSTHE DEVELOPERS OF THE DEVELOPERS OF GEOGRAPHY WERE OLDEST GEOGRAPHY WERE OLDEST RACE OF MEN; THE BLACK MEN RACE OF MEN; THE BLACK MEN AND WOMEN OF CLASSICAL AND WOMEN OF CLASSICAL KEMET [EGYPT] & TA-SETI KEMET [EGYPT] & TA-SETI [NUBIA: THE SUDAN][NUBIA: THE SUDAN]

PHAROAH AKENATON & PHAROAH AKENATON & QUEEN NEFERTITIQUEEN NEFERTITI

QUEEN NEFERTITIQUEEN NEFERTITI

ANCIENT ORIGINSANCIENT ORIGINS

THE AFRIKAN PRIESTS OF KEMET THE AFRIKAN PRIESTS OF KEMET USED GEOGRAPHY TO ALIGN THE USED GEOGRAPHY TO ALIGN THE GREAT PYRAMIDS WITH TRUE GREAT PYRAMIDS WITH TRUE NORTH. [10,500 B.C.]NORTH. [10,500 B.C.]

ANCIENT ORIGINSANCIENT ORIGINS

THE AFRIKAN PRIESTS OF KEMET THE AFRIKAN PRIESTS OF KEMET SHOWED THE GREEKS HOW TO SHOWED THE GREEKS HOW TO MEASURE THE MEASURE THE CIRCUMFERENCECIRCUMFERENCE OF THE EARTH, USING OF THE EARTH, USING LATITUDELATITUDE AND AND LONGITUDELONGITUDE..

ANCIENT ORIGINSANCIENT ORIGINSTHE GREEK LIBRARIAN THE GREEK LIBRARIAN ERASTOSTHENES [275 BC ERASTOSTHENES [275 BC - 193 BC] WAS THE FIRST - 193 BC] WAS THE FIRST GREEK TO LEARN OF THE GREEK TO LEARN OF THE AFRICAN METHOD FOR AFRICAN METHOD FOR MEASURING THE EARTH’S MEASURING THE EARTH’S CIRCUMFERENCE.CIRCUMFERENCE.

ERASTOSTHENES ERASTOSTHENES [275 BC - 193 BC][275 BC - 193 BC]

EARTH CIRCUMFERENCE EARTH CIRCUMFERENCE FORMULAFORMULA

A/360 = D/CA/360 = D/C WHERE,WHERE,

A A = SHADOW ANGLE= SHADOW ANGLE360360 = DEGREES IN CIRCLE= DEGREES IN CIRCLEDD = DISTANCE FROM= DISTANCE FROM

EQUATOR. EQUATOR.CC = CIRCUMFERENCE= CIRCUMFERENCE

IIIIGEOGRAPHIC GEOGRAPHIC

PERSPECTIVESPERSPECTIVES

SPATIALSPATIAL WHERE THINGS ARE.WHERE THINGS ARE. THINGS EXIST IN SPACE. THINGS EXIST IN SPACE. THINGS CREATE SPATIAL THINGS CREATE SPATIAL PATTERNS, WHICH ARE PATTERNS PATTERNS, WHICH ARE PATTERNS IN THE SPACES INHABITED BY IN THE SPACES INHABITED BY HUMANS, OR A SPATIAL SYSTEM.HUMANS, OR A SPATIAL SYSTEM.

HISTORICALHISTORICAL

WHEN AND WHY WHEN AND WHY SOMETHING SOMETHING HAPPENED AT A HAPPENED AT A PARTICULAR TIME.PARTICULAR TIME.

ECONOMICECONOMIC HOW SOCIETIES HOW SOCIETIES PRODUCE AND PRODUCE AND EXCHANGE RESOURCES EXCHANGE RESOURCES TO MEET THE NEEDS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ITS PEOPLE.OF ITS PEOPLE.

CULTURALCULTURALHOW A PARTICULAR HOW A PARTICULAR ETHNIC GROUP/RACE ETHNIC GROUP/RACE VIEWS REALITY.VIEWS REALITY.