Cultural geography

Cultural geography is a subfield within human geography. Though the first traces of the study of different nations and cultures on Earth can be dated back to ancient geographers such as Ptolemy or Strabo, cultural geography as an academic study first emerged as an alternative to the environmental determinist theories of the early 20th century, which had believed that people and societies are controlled by the environment in which they develop. Rather than studying predetermined regions based on environmental classifications, cultural geography became interested in cultural landscapes.

Extends: [Cultural geography](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Cultural geography), [Human geography](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Human geography), [Cultural studies](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Cultural studies)