Clime
Back to people overviewReferred to by Claudius Ptolemy as a zone on a map, climes persisted for hundreds of years in European cartography. First described by Aristotle, the Earth was thought to have five climes: the Arctic and Antarctic, or North and South frigid zones; the North and South temperate zones; and one very hot zone between the two tropical zones. Only the temperate zones were thought to be habitable.
![Ptolemaic Projection of a world map set against a blue sky, surrounded by clouds and 12 Windheads](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/foan2pfl/production/9d198c3b0824a38f651ebce73983b35cf010d7a5-5025x3753.png?w=3840&q=85&auto=format)