Motives of imperialism

Builds on · 52

Step 1

• Past, present and future · strand History and time: basic concepts

Step 2

• Traces of the past · strand History and time: basic concepts
• Dating: BC and AD · strand History and time: basic concepts
• Types of historical sources · strand History and time: basic concepts

Step 3

• Centuries and millennia · strand History and time: basic concepts
• Primary and secondary sources · strand History and time: basic concepts

Step 4

• Timeline · strand History and time: basic concepts
• The founding legend of Rome · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome

Step 5

• Historical periods · strand History and time: basic concepts
• The Roman Republic · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome

Step 6

• Human evolution and migration · strand Prehistory and early civilisations
• Greek city-states · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome
• Patricians and plebeians · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome
• Roman expansion · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome

Step 7

• Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers · strand Prehistory and early civilisations
• Athenian democracy · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome
• Crisis of the Roman Republic · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome
• Romanisation · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome

Step 8

• Neolithic farming villages · strand Prehistory and early civilisations
• The Roman frontier (limes) · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome
• The legacy of antiquity · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome

Step 9

• Neolithic Revolution · strand Prehistory and early civilisations
• The Migration Period · strand Middle Ages

Step 10

• Civilisation on the Nile · strand Prehistory and early civilisations

Step 11

• Features of an advanced civilisation · strand Prehistory and early civilisations

Step 12

• The pharaoh and Egyptian society · strand Prehistory and early civilisations

Step 13

• Monarchy · strand Prehistory and early civilisations

Step 14

• Caesar, Augustus and the Principate · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome

Step 15

• Christians in the Roman Empire · strand Antiquity: Greece and Rome

Step 16

• The Frankish kingdom · strand Middle Ages

Step 17

• Charlemagne's rule · strand Middle Ages

Step 18

• The three medieval estates · strand Middle Ages

Step 19

• Medieval faith and church · strand Middle Ages

Step 20

• Renaissance and humanism · strand Early modern period
• Church abuses and indulgences · strand Early modern period

Step 21

• Luther and the Reformation · strand Early modern period

Step 22

• Peace of Augsburg · strand Early modern period

Step 23

• Causes of the Thirty Years' War · strand Early modern period

Step 24

• Peace of Westphalia · strand Early modern period

Step 25

• Absolutism · strand Early modern period

Step 26

• Mercantilism · strand Early modern period
• The Enlightenment · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century

Step 27

• Causes of the French Revolution · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Industrialisation in England · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century

Step 28

• The revolution of 1789 · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Steam engine and railway · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century

Step 29

• Declaration of the Rights of Man · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century
• Industrialisation in Germany · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century directly

Step 30

• The Reign of Terror · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century

Step 31

• Napoleon's rule in Europe · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century

Step 32

• Rise of German nationalism · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century

Step 33

• Liberalism and nationalism · strand Enlightenment, revolutions and the 19th century directly

Built on directly by

Step 35

• The Scramble for Africa
• Alliances and the arms race

After that, 67 more building blocks build on it in 23 further steps.