The Opium Wars

Imperialism Project

We did the imperialism project becuase we wanted to know how was some places were discovered and by which people and credit to do it. Also know who name the places or great lakes like lake Victoria and other known parts of the region of Africa that has other English names in their region. Also we did this project to learn that never to give up from what you started from. Always accomplish until the end. What i laerned from doing this project was that John Speke committed suicide when he was the one who found the lake and named it after the queen of Britian. John Speke suffered alot in their way to finding the source of the nile river. Also the source of the nile river is

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the moon"

This film is all about when eurpeans went to africa to map the world to places were other people havent reached yet so what happens is that a guy named Richard Burton and John Speke go to explore and also want to find the source of the nile river and by doing this the first thing they do was to higher some slaves or workers from them to come on the expedition. When they were on their journey they would see other tribes and give them gifst so they wont get attcked or robbed. They would sleep at nights little becuase they would need to be careful from the mosquitos because they had malaria and it was a disease that their was no cure back then and if you were infected you were pretty much screwed. Also when Speke went to keep going on the search for the source of the nile he discovered a lake which present it is lake victoria and this has it name like that because they wanted to name it after their queen of england. The reason why the english people had an advantage against the africans because of their better army supplies and weapons. They would eventually finish the africans from their new weapon the machine gun destroy their tribes but the problem was that they wouldnt be able to go far into africa because of Malaria from the mosquitos. Then they retreated and went back to england to find a cure for malaria and when they did they had two great advantages agaisnt the africans the weapons and the cure for malaria.