Which of the following is the correct sequence in the development of geographic thought? (A) Greeks, Roman, Arabs, Dark Ages (B) Greeks, Roman, Dark Ages, Arabs (C) Roman, Greeks, Arabs, Dark Ages (D) Arabs, Greeks, Roman, Dark Ages  (E) Greeks, Dark ages, Roman, Arabs Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Which of the following is the correct sequence in the development of geographic thought? (A) Greeks, Roman, Arabs, Dark Ages (B) Greeks, Roman, Dark Ages, Arabs (C) Roman, Greeks, Arabs, Dark Ages (D) Arabs, Greeks, Roman, Dark Ages  (E) Greeks, Dark ages, Roman, Arabs Choose the correct answer from the options given below: Correct Answer (B)

Correct Answer: Greeks, Roman, Dark Ages, Arabs.

Key Points

•  Greek Age Traditionally, the Ancient Greek period was taken to begin with the date of the first Olympic Games in 776 BC, but most historians now extend the term back to about 1000 BC. The traditional date for the end of the Classical Greek period is the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC.
• Roman Age The Roman Empire was founded when Augustus Caesar proclaimed himself the first emperor of Rome in 31BC and came to an end with the fall of Constantinople in 1453CE. An empire is a political system in which a group of people is ruled by a single individual, an emperor or empress. Some important Roman Scholars are Strabo, Ptolemy, Solinus, and Pomponius Mela.
• Drak Age The period of decline of scientific knowledge and methodology is called the dark age during the period of about 500 years from 200 to 700 following the Ptolemy death, Geography witnessed a decline in its development as it was the time of Roman ascendance and the Roman contribute little to the scientific knowledge during this phase.
• Arab Age The Islamic Golden Age was a period of cultural, economic, and scientific flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dating from the 8th century to the 14th century. This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the world's largest city by then, where Islamic scholars and polymaths from various parts of the world with different cultural backgrounds were mandated to gather and translate all of the known world's classical knowledge into Aramaic and Arabic.

​Additional Information

•  Some Greek age scholars Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc.
•  fields of historical and regional geography saw considerable progress, with Strabo and Ptolemy being the leading proponents.
• Various Islamic scholars contributed to the development of geography and cartography, with the most notable including Al-Khwārizmī, Abū Zayd al-Balkhī (founder of the "Balkhi school"), Al-Masudi, Abu Rayhan Biruni, and Muhammad al-Idrisi.