UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN GEOGRAPHY
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

Semester V - Paper VII - Geographical Thought

Duration: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Semester V

PAPER VII - GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT

Unit I

Geographical Thought - Definition - sources of data for ancient people - Travel in ancient times - purposes of travel. Pre-historical western geographical thought - Greeks: Greek Contribution to Physical geography, Human Geography, Cartography, Mathematical Geography: Contribution of Homer, Aristotitle, Heradoters, Eueateslhenes, Alexander the Great, Hecataeus. Role of Pheonians

Unit II

Contribution of Romans : Strabe Ptolomy, Porubonius mela, Lfirmanus. Ancient Indian Geographical Thought: Sources of information - Contribution of Indians to Information regarding - geography of India, Dwipas, Seasons - earth and sun, earth quakes etc contributions of Kalidasa, Aryabhatta, Brahamgupta. Arab contribution to geography : Contribution to physical geography, regional geography, human geography, contributions of Almasudi, Albirumi, Al Balakhi, Ibn-Frttenrta

Unit III

Major exploitations and discoveries : Contribution of Megallan, Vascodagama, Hume Cook, Christopher Columbus. Contribution of modern geographers varenius, Immanual Kauf, Alexander Von Humbill, Carl Ritter.

Unit IV

Determinisum and Possibilism, New determinism. Contributions of Radzel, Ellenzemple, La Blackehn, Ellsworth, Huntington, Griffith Taylor.

Unit V

Evolution of Man : Pethuneseman, Javaman, Neandartalman, Cromagnonman, Jaboth and Neolithic age. Races of Mankind: Characteristics of racial features - distribution of races race as a mith.

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