Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

In the movie "Moutains of the Moon" it displays many of the problems englishmen had to face while trying to discover the Nile River. Many tried to find the source by going from the end of the river to the source but were eaten up my the deserts that surrounded it. In the movie the 2 explores try walking at random in hoping they would bump into it. While traveling they had many of their helpers run away with the gear they brought cause they would be able to sell it and make alot of money. Another problem was the disease they would get off the Moskito, Englishmen didn't have a immunity to it and died. Also seeing near by tribes who have never seen a white man before.
It funny that the source of the Nile is called Lake Victoria after a dead white queen because she didn't discover it. Its been discovered along time a go by the native people who already named it. England was finally able to conquer Africa because they invented the vaccine for malaria that was what was killing them. Another benefit they had was around the time the vaccine was invented they created the machine gun which made it even easier for them to take a village of Africans.

Imperialism Project

We did the Imperialism Project so we could understand better how the world was becomeing imperialist. I noticed that England conquered many countries to get their goods because they were the first to start the industrial revolution and you need many goods. It took England about 20 years to really conquer most of Africa because of it disease they weren't able to go in. Germany, Portugal, Belgium, and France. Spain had some land but they really didn't need it cause they had Central and south America.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx was an German philosopher who created the idea of Communism. He didn't believe in the idea of the industrialization so he came up with communism. In the a communist country they share the wealth, by that meaning everyone gets paid the same amount no matter what your job is. Karl Marx believed that if communism would take over the world and it would filled with prosperity. Karl Marx believe that the bourgeoisie (factory owner) were evil and the workers were the good ones being used by the bourgeoisie to get richer and leave the workers poorer. he wanted them to stand up and take over the bourgeoisie and spread the wealth. But Karl Marxs idea of Communism didn't work because in real life everyone is greed and wants more then others.