Alexander Von Humboldt

Scientist Explorer The German naturalist Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt’s (1769-1859), known in English as Alexander von Humboldt, is considered the father of modern geography and ecology. He was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Humboldt’s quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. His advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring.

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Short Outline of Chinese Civilization

No one knows for sure how old Chinese civilization is. We do know that it’s one of the oldest civilizations on Earth, and that it is the only one to have existed unbroken from it’s earliest beginning into modern times. Legends claim that the first rulers in China were the Xia Dynasty, from around 2100 to 1600 BCE, and that Yu was the first emperor.

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