  A natural one-to-one correspondence between projective spaces, defined by an
axiom system published by O. Veblen and J. W. Young in 1908, and projective
join spaces, defined by an axiom system published by M. Pieri in 1899, is
presented. A projecitivity criterion for join spaces is proved that amounts to
replacing one of the projective geometry axioms of Pieri by an axiom published
by G. Peano in 1889 as part of an axiom system for order geometry. Thus,
projective geometry and order geometry have a broad common axiomatic basis. As
a corollary, it is shown how the concept of a projective join space can be
derived from the concept of a matroid. The defining properties of an
equivalence relation are used as a conceptual red thread.
