Film Lesson: Mountains of the Moon

In the film "Mountains of the Moon", it showed scences of how hard europeans experienced when exploring Africa. They had to face the roaring sun of deserts, the hard paasage way of rocks. Even bugs crawling around their camp site. Not only that, europeans also faced attacking tribes that intruded their territory and attacked to scare them away.

In another scence, John Speek told Richard Berton that he finally found the source of the Nile River even though he did not believe him. That source was later called Lake Victoria. The thing that is strange about the name of the source of the Nile River is that is named by a British Queen. I think that the source shoud have the African name of it because they were the first people to discover that source. It is either that, or it should be named by the european explorers that founded it. The point is that the Queen is taking most of the credit of the source by naming it after herself and that is just not fair.

In most of the scenes, Speek and Berton were seen defending themselves with guns. An technology that Africans never saw before and was fasinated of how it used. They could defeat a tribe by a trigger of a bullet. That tells me that the Europeans had enough power to conquer parts of Africa just by using guns as a primary weapon.