Because a monopoly would end up making someone monopolizing the whole world to a point where no one can buy a business and would allow them to set their prices as high as they want.
C. Had propaganda made that promoted them as being aligned politically and personally.
Christopher Columbus was instructed by the King, and Queen of Spain to travel to the new world in search of valuable natural resources. Columbus had his own inclinations to travel being that the idea that the world was spherical had not yet been a well accepted fact.
A. Inhabited territories have a permanent population, & uninhabited territories don’t.
