Geographers study the earth.
Geography is a very old field of study, going back more than 2500 years to such early Greek writers as Hecataeus, Herodotus, and Eratosthenes, who in the third century B.C. published the first book to be titled Geography. Like all formal disciplines, geography began to develop with the establishment of universities in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The first regularly appointed and paid geographer in a university was Barthel Stein, who was appointed to the faculty in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1509. In the late 1500s Oxford University hired its first full-time geography professor, Richard Hakluyt. By the 1800s there were many universities in Europe and America where geography was taught, and thus it was only natural that geography would be an important part of the first curriculum of the Arizona Territorial Normal School.