Why did christopher columbus take so many people on the boat with him ?

In hoping to make a settlement. if he just went on and just marked it, anyone could take it. but with a settlement there it wouldn't go away.

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t