As surveyors are first and foremost called on to make accurate measurements upon the land, it is useful to study how our predecessors understood the concepts of measurement and how they applied these concepts in the development of their various civilizations. This course seeks to cover mankind's original need for systems of measurement, how these systems developed and evolved across the ages in some of the familiar cultures of the historical world, and how the evolution of these systems applies to the work of the modern surveyor.

As surveyors are first and foremost called on to make accurate measurements upon the land, it is useful to study how our predecessors understood the concepts of measurement and how they applied these concepts in the development of their various civilizations. This course seeks to cover mankind's original need for systems of measurement, how these systems developed and evolved across the ages in some of the familiar cultures of the historical world, and how the evolution of these systems applies to the work of the modern surveyor.