Thursday, December 10, 2009

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"



The film " Mountains of the Moon "  was about  finding  the source of the Nile river  it basically talk about exploring Africa where no white people had ever been before. it showed imperialism in many. Some of the hardships that Europeans faced as they explored Africa was  the diseases, bugs, the weather type, the wild , trying to get  to the source of the Nile by walking , also  by being attack  many times by different tribes in Africa. But at the end  they found the source of the Nile and when they found it they named it lake Victoria and this was really weird because they didn't discovered the lake  people in Africa knew it was there but they didn't really cared about that  but John speek  and Richard Burton named it  Victoria because they were superior then Africans they had more  power . And that's how imperialism work . Also Europeans had way better technology than  African and  one of the primary technology was  guns this was an advantage  Europeans  had over Africans. Europeans eventually  were able to conquer Africa very easily   because they had guns , they had machines to make the guns too, Europeans also found the cure for malaria.

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