Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

The Europeans faced many hardships while trying to explore Africa. Diseases killed many Europeans and cures were not made until many years later. Tribes that lived there have never seem white people before and saw them as trespassers. These tribes would attack the Europeans and kill them. There was no way for the Europeans to control these tribes so they could explore the origins of the Nile river, unless they controlled them by force. The machine gun was built and was a primary technology advantage for the Europeans and soon became the tool that let the Europeans freely explore Africa.

The tribes of Africa were no longer a match to the force of the machine guns. The National Geographic was able to explore places on the map that were never seen before by the Europeans or the rest of the world such as the full extent of the Nile River. The Europeans easily took over Africa. The main purpose was to gain resources from their lands but they also took over their way of life. The Europeans felt they were the greatest and most advanced race in the world and felt they were doing the Africans a favor by teaching them their ways and religion. Many other nations competed with each other to gain African land, this is how Africa got it's borders.