Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Film lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"



Mountains of the Moon (1990) is a film that depict the journey of two European explorer by the name of Richard Francis Burton and John Henning Speke on their exploration of central Africa which culminated in the discovery of the Nile River. The Europeans faced the heat off the Sarah desert, lost of food, and also being able to adapting to Africa. Lake Victoria, which is located in Africa, was named after the Europe queen because John Speke found it, and one had changed the name ever since.

The Europeans had better technology over the Africans, which made it easy to conquer their land. The Europeans had guns and cannons, the Africans were not familiar with these technology the Europeans also had a steam ship witch can travel far in short times. This was an easy capture for the Europeans.

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