''Mountains of the Moon"

Richard Burton and John Speak dealt with many hardships throughout their exploration in Africa. These two men were European explorers. As shown in the film "Mountains of the Moon they they faced a lot of problems with the africans. Since people from Africa didn't know who these strange white men were, they assaulted them .Eventually Richard Burton and John Speak would have to defend themselves or just try and run away. These africans had their own local tribes, and were armed with spears and other hand-made weapons. These two explorers were in search of the Nile River. However a source of the Nile River was known as lake Victoria. This lake originally got its name from a British Queen. Since Burton and spleak's queen was Queen Victoria, they decided to name the lake "LAKE VICTORIA" As we now know today; Lake Victoria is the third largest lake in the world! Richard Burton and John spleak faced rough times because they'd get captured and torchered if the africans ever got a hold of them. The purpose of all this was to search for the great Nile River. SOme primary technological advantages these europeans had against the africans were guns and other advanced weapons. They also had advanced skills such as knowledge and a way of communication. Knowledge is power, without no knowledge then you have no power. In this case people in europe had a steady organized government, where people dont live out on the streets or hunt for their own food. They have a shelter, clothing, marketing open harbors for ships to import and export goods. African people had NONE of this!! So this is how basically Europeans were able to conquer africa so easily.