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.

first, the romans stayed isolated because they had to defend their own territories from neighboring cities that were harassing them, like the etruscans. second, once the romans managed to defeat their neighbors, and started to expand their territory, they started to build roads and bridges. finally, now that the romans have covered their territory with roads functioning as highways, they could mobilize their legions faster to assemble larger military units in a specific place

all cities have a governor

all cities are in states or provnies then country

all cities have people

difference

some are rich

some are poor

some are average