The presence of geographic knowledge in the anciente and middle ages

Abstract

The work in focus, comprises a study that aims to show that geographic knowledge was already present in the ancient and middle ages and that the geographical ideas produced in that period were of great importance for the formation of modern academic Geography. In that context, the research developed used the deductive method as a starting point and, it is a qualitative study, since it is a bibliographic research about the highlighted theme, as a way of starting from the reading of the bibliographic collection, to obtain valid information regarding the presence of geographic knowledge in the ancient and middle ages. Given the study, it is concluded that scientific Geography as we know it today, is the result of a long process of origin and systematization of geographic knowledge, whose genesis goes back to the Ancient Age and extends to its systematization as science, in the 19th century. Geographic ideas over the centuries, from the ancient age through the middle ages, arose not by chance, but from the need for human beings to orient themselves and to be located in the space in which they lived, to represent it through maps and to better understand the nature and the universe.