The Opium War

China believe that they were a independent country so they didn't want to deal with other countries. Britain had something that Chinese people wouldn't resist that is call "opium," Chinese people used to use it as drugs. Britain wanted to deal with China because they wanted China's tea. After a few time Chinese people started to become addicted to opium. China's government started to get angry because opium was destroying their people and the whole country. In order to stop this they didn't want to deal with
Britain anymore, but Britain didn't want to stop dealing with China, that's why started "the opium war." China refuse to deal with Britain and China try to block Britain's ships wanted to get in and force China to keep importing. Because of their technology and their better ships and weapons Britain people defeat Chinese people to easily.

The White Man's Burned

For me "The White Man's Burden" means when people believe that they are more civilized and because of that they think that they can help other cultures to modernized and civilized them. One Great example is what is happening Between the U.S. and Irak. The U.S. is "trying" to help Irak, but they are really not doing nothing. I think that part of this of this poem is showing racism. I think that we still living "White Man's Burden" one hundred years later because as I said the U.S. want to change other country's government but they cannot do nothing.

The scramble for Afric

Scramble for Africa means a time when Africa's land was take over by Europeans.After a lot of explorations on Africa, Europe started to take over the land. Europe started to take more and more land, this was called "Scramble for Africa". French was the main nation involved in the Scramble for Africa. Europeans were looking for African's sources because they wanted to power up their industries or factories. They were able to conquer Africa because of their technology and because of the large number of armies and powerful weapons. As more land was conquer more African were slaves their villages were destroy and some people that wanted to protect their family end up death.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

Europe wanted African sources because they wanted to power up their industries and factories. In order to do that they started to explored Africa. Some explorers such as John speak and Richard Burton started to explore Africa, but they were attacked by African natives. He tried again after few year, but this time they were carrying a lot of supplies and food too. As they were exploring people started to get sick of "molonia", however they had the cure for molonia and also people started to get thirsty because of the lack of water. Finally, they found the third biggest lake on the world and they called as a British queen (Lake Victoria). Europeans had advantages because they had better technology such as better weapons and better ships. Because of the better technology Europeans were able to conquer Europe so easily.