Tenerife Spanish Conquest

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Spanish Conquest

At the dawn of the great age of discovery and conquest of sophisticated civilizations around the world by European powers, it was surprising for Spain to be confronted with a Stone Age culture on its doorstep and at the same time to find itself struggling to

bring that society under its control. Though the Spanish campaigns in the Canarian archipelago were not as bloody as later ones in the New World, the Guanches, who fought with little more than sticks and stones, did inflict several bloody defeats on the well-equipped conquistadors and it took almost a hundred years, the vast majority of the fifteenth century, to conquer the islands. La Gomera was one of the first of the Canary islands to fall under Spanish control, Tenerife the last.

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