APHG Important Geographers

Created the Rimland Theory-who controls the Rimland rules Eurasia

Created the "Heartland Theory"

Developed a model for understanding industrial location in regard to labor, markets, resources

Created the model of the "Isoloated State"

Father of Chinese cartography

Argued that climate was a major determinate of civilization

Provided instructions on how to create maps of the known world and the Roman Empire

Created stages of evoltuion of the American Metropolis based on transportation

Created the "Multiple Nuclei Model"

Descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the known world in his time

Created the Core Periphery Model

Developed "Possibilism"- humans have a wide range of potential actions within an environment

Wrote "The Histories" and traveled around Mesopotamia

Known as the "father of American geography"

Stated that modern technology has made location and place irrelevent (internet)

Stated that cities are products of their societies

Believed domestication of plants and animals did not develop hunger

Created the "Sector Model"

Author or "The Nature of Geography", American geographer

Stated that the women/men gap widens with economic progress

Created the Demographic Transition Model

Descendent of the prophet Muhammed, his "inhabited earth" is divided into 7 climates

Obsessed with the desert and created the "Desert Dweller Theories"

Stated that people are growing faster than resources

Traveled around the Islamic empire in 1100

Coined the word "geography", measured latitude and longitude, prepared earliest known map

Commande expeditionary voyages to SE Asia, Sotuh Asia, Western Asia, and East Africa in 1400s

Space-Time Compression theory

Stated the ecological effects of increasing population on agriculture (rural land use)

Created the "Concentric Zone Model"