Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

When the European came to Africa they thought that it was going to be easy, but they didn't know what was coming ahead of them. They where almost kill by different tribes. Richard Burton and John Speek were a part of the Royal Geographic Society.They where looking for a lake they finally found the lake in the middle of Africa and named it lake Victoria after the British queen. After that many thing where inverted steamboats and machine guns also the cure for malaria was discovered in Europe and that made Africa easier to explore.

Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The Opium wars was between China and other Western countries. In 1839 to 1842 the opium war was about how the Imperialism nations wanted goods from china suck as silk and spices. The western countries didn't want to pay too much or have difficulty finding things. The Europeans traded Opium with the Chinese for tea. The Europeans know what they doing to the Chinese, the Chinese got addicted to the drug. Opium is used fro morphine and heroin. Then china ban the used of opium and anyone who used or sell it would be put to death. The war started, however the British technology and army was to strong fro china.Therefore the British won the war and china legalized the import of Opium

Imperialism project

we work on a imperialism project to learn how Europeans travel overseas to dominated countries in Africa and Asia and to get raw materials from other countries.For example England controlled Nigeria and Egypt, France controlled Mali and Niger. With this project i learned that people all over the world during that period would trade things for other things they don't have. They would travel in big ships full of materials to trade with and to survive.When the Europeans came to Africa they realize that people live their and their where not as civilized as they where so the colonized some African countries try to make them civilized follow the same beliefs as them. Now in Africa some countries speak English,or French and their native language.