Fredrich Ratzel is the founder of modern human geography. He has extended significant contribution in the development of human geography. Ratzel wrote an epic named “Anthropogeography”. In this book, he gave preference to human geography and physical features instead of regional description. According to him, National Environment is responsible for human distribution.
He is a determinism based geographer. According to him, environmental conditions are responsible for physical and mental growth, distribution and momentum of humans. He described the distribution pattern of humans in the world. Ratzel described origin and development of human civilizations centered on the basis of climatic effect.