Film lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

Answer: In the film" mountains of the Moon" the Europeans faced many hardship as they explored Africa. For example, they didn't have enough food to maintain themselves alive. They had a lot of traveling to do, had to walk a lot and carry a lot of equipment. They were very tired of walking. Some of their equipment were stolen, which was very expensive. Richard Burton got a disease on his leg and could barely walk, he had to be carry. They were attacked and threatened by tribes. Richard Burton was attacked by a lion and John Speke ear got infected by a bug that had went inside his ear. They were very weak, they couldn't find any water to drink from, the first lake that they found was contaminated by diseases and was poison, dead animals were surrounding it. It is strange that the source of the Nile river was name by a British Queen because it was found in African and it should have been named by a African named. The primary technology advantage the Europeans had over Africa people was there advanced technology in weapons,scientific equipment, good clothes, but the African people had arrows, but the Europeans had guns, shields and many other weapons. They europeans were eventually able to conquer the Africa easily by their advanced technology that the African tribes didn't have so they were defeated. The Europeans conquered Africa slowly, it took some time because Africa was much more bigger then what the though.