Mountain of the moon

The movie we watched in class was the mountain of the moon because we are studying imperialism. This movie was talking about the way the two famous europeans Richard Burton and John Speke discovered lake victoria which is the source of the nile river. It talked how these two people struggled for months and months to just find the source of the Nile river. Most people died in this adventure and some survived. They both had to take two trips to Africa because they weren't prepared the first time because they didn't have the materials and resources to eat or didn't even have any weapons to protect themselves because they came across other territories and tribes. There were diseases such as malaria. John Speke had became death in his second trip because he forgot to cover himself in his insect tent at night and it got in his ear. John Speke was the one to discover the source of the nile river and named it lake victoria after the queen of the united kingdom Queen Victoria. The europeans had guns and updated resources and the africans had spears so they used that against them and took over Africa.