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The Babylonian Map of the World was incised on a clay tablet.
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The compass was invented by the Chinese, and the first ones were made of lodestone.
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The International Meridian Conference selected the Greenwich Meridian as an international standard for zero degrees longitude.
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This organization was founded with the intent to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge.
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Roger Tomlinson is famed for being a pioneer in the field of Geographic Information System (GIS).
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The five themes of geography were developed by the National Council for Geographic Education and the Association of American Geographers to help with geography education at the K-12 levels.
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Replacing the five themes of geography, a set of eighteen learning standards was created by the National Council for Geographic Education.
