who is father of history and Geography?
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Herodotus
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Herodotus is the father of History and Eratosthenes is the father of Geography.
- Herodotus was a Greek historian.
- He wrote the very first text in history.
- It was his works that gave us information about civilizations in ancient Egypt, Persia, etc.
- Historians even today refer to his works for insights into ancient history.
- Eratosthenes was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, and poet.
- He invented the discipline called geography by first calculating the circumference of the earth.
- He created the first-ever map of the world as well as the algorithm to identify the prime numbers.
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