Some hardships that the Europeans faced during their expedition through Africa is that they were attacked by tribes that existed in the dessert area and many bugs like mosquito's that would malaria. In the film John Speke was being bit by bugs and one crawled into his ear. Lake Victoria is named after a British queen because it was founded by two British men John Speke and Richard Burden. Africa was easily conquered because the Europeans established automatic weapons like machine guns and the African people was still using spears and that's how they were able to conquer the Africans so easily.