What Does Arizona look like? We’re more than just desert, you know…

Arizona is a land of different Geographical Zones Geographical Zone: A region with a distinct climate , landforms and plant and animal populations. Arizona has the following Zones: Desert also known as “Basin and Range” Mountain also known as the “Transition Zone” Plateau also known as “Colorado Plateau”

Why do “Zones” matter in Social Studies? Geographical Zones determine how you live. What you eat What your home is like What you do for a job What your culture is like No other single factor influences the development of human cultures across the globe as much as Geographical Zones.

What do the homes say about the zones? Great Plains Pacific Northwest

Australian home by the sea English Home by the sea Australian home by the sea

Any Smartboard volunteers? Arizona zones Any Smartboard volunteers? Desert Mountain Plateau

Life Questions in the zone What would you eat? Where or how would you get water? What would your shelter look like? What kind of clothing would you have? How would you measure wealth? How much space would you need to survive? What kind of community would you need or want? (Family, Tribe, City)

Water AND Settlement Which two zones have the most water? Create arrows to identify the water flow using a colored pencil. Circle the reservoirs on this map using a colored pencil. Compare the locations of cities with the location of rivers and reservoirs. WHAT DO YOU FIND?

Life in the Desert

Life in the Sonoran Desert Maricopa, Pima, Papago, Tohono O’ Odham Quickest route through Arizona. First Railroad Scant Resources (water, wood, animals) ARID CLIMATE Small communities, tied to water sources Mineral Wealth brought Europeans, Spanish and Mexicans learned to raise cattle in grasslands

What happened? First area to be settled by Europeans Spanish Ranches, then Mexican Mexicans pushed Natives out Freighters to California, then railroads After Mexican-American war, American industry moved in Americans pushed Mexicans out

Life in the Mountains

Life in the Mountains Sinagua and Yavapai-semi mobile, stayed near fertile streambeds. Small communities. Plentiful water Thin, poor soil. Fine for cattle, but easily overgrazed. Plenty of mineral wealth.

What Happened? 1863- GOLD! Industrialists from outside AZ came to places like Jerome and Prescott and pushed out Native American tribes. “For the first time in Arizona’s history, non-Indians came to the mountainous interior and stayed.” Small scale mining until the Railroad connected Prescott in 1893 Railroad made mining and cattle possible because it moved the materials out of AZ to be sold

Life 0n the Plateau

Life 0n the plateau Navajo and some Apache. More Apache, Sinagua and Yavapai moved into area in 1870’s…WHY? Temperate climate due to higher elevation. Terrain makes large scale farming difficult. Full of mineral wealth. Well suited for industrial mining and logging

What Happened? Spanish or Mexicans had not settled in Northern Arizona in any real numbers Mexican-American War brought U.S. into contact with the Navajo. Within 20 years, Canyon de Chelly had been destroyed Railroads connected Northern Arizona to San Francisco (Lumber, Gold, Copper, and Dollars) Arizona became more American than Mexican

Create a Narrative Look at your landform and water maps. Create a narrative a describing how the following people’s lives would have changed with the arrival of the Railroad. Bob, a cattle rancher living near Tucson Sika, a Yavapai living near Prescott Victoria, a tourist going from New York to CA Mr. Whipple, a lumber mill owner near Flagstaff Carlos, a freight wagon operation living near Phoenix