"Mountains of the Moon"

the term Mountains of the moon reffered to a mountain in central africa. That was a long history about the source of the nile. It was located in East Africa in rwanda. And Richard Burton and some number of expeditions up the nile failed to find the source. Eventually a marchand named diogenes reported that he had traveled inland from rhapta in East africa for twenty-five days and had found the source of Nile. He reported it flowed from a group of massive mountains into a series of large lakes. He reported the natives called this range the Mountains of the Moon because of their snowcapped whiteness. And after all these arguments the reports were accepted as true by someone whose name is Ptolemy and other Greek and Roman geohraphers, and maps he produced indicated the reported location of the mountains. Late Arab geographers, despite having far more knowledge of Africa, also took the report at face value, and included the mountains in the same location given by Ptolemy. The fact that the source of the Nile River which is the 3rd largest lake in the world is called Lake Victoria. Even thought the Lake is in Africa it is named after queen Victoria of Europe. The source was no part of Europe and still it was named after queen Victoria because the modern world believed that they discovered it even through it was inhabited by the native people of the Nile. Till this day Lake Victoria is still called Lake Victoria event thought the Europeans don't own it anymore.
In the end it all mattered on who had the technological advantage