Were economic factors more of driving force behind european imperialism than national pride than improved technology?

Yes.

Explanation:

The economic factors helped them to get the natural resources they needed to improve the national pride and the technology. It also helped the political competition.

earlier philosophers whose work influenced the enlightenment included bacon, descartes, locke, and spinoza. the major figures of the enlightenment included beccaria, diderot, hume, kant, montesquieu, rousseau, adam smith, and voltaire. it spread the ideas of the enlightenment across europe and beyond.

yes i would go with c

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