This is a pretty overlooked part of history, the conquistadors are usually only associated with the new world, but they also took part in matters in Africa and the Portugese even went far into Asia. Good video!
Thank you for your video on the Canaries! Its a shame youtube doesn't have more content on the conquest of the canary islands. It's heroic and quite sad, no one belives the conquistadors were the good guys lol. The old canarians lasted out for 98 years. Though a modern term as an umbrella to these people their true names are: Guanche (Tenerife), Canari (Gran Canaria), Benahorite (La Palma), Bimbache (Hierro), Gomera (Gomera, yes, this island still has a large population mostly descended from them) and Maxo (Lanzarote and Fuerteventura). Actually, debate is out there about whether they knew how to navigate or not. We're taking into account too much of what the chronicler wrote when a Guanche said 'we don't sail'. Firstly, they had the know-how and materials to craft small vessels and rafts, the fact they were made of perishable materials doesn't help, but there are plenty of oral accounts of frequent island hopping, with many stories of one island's princes crossing over (even swimming) and taking a woman back with him... Also, as you mentioned during the XIII century onwards there was increasing pressure from raids that sought to enslave everyone, those living on mountainous islands decided to live cautiously away from the coast, probably forgetting navigation altogether, rather than "not knowing how to navigate". Give these people credit, out of isolation they literally evolved a complex social system, stone houses, agriculture, and herding while not being able to work metal...
I am descendant of Guanches and feel terrible what they did to my ancestors. My Dna matches exactly to my ancestors. I’m getting my dna verified and certified.
Maybe it is not such an important detail, but it was only the inhabitants of Tenerife that were actually called Guanches. Etymologically, the name Guanches can be accurately translated as “person of Tenerife.” So there werent really any Guanches on Gran Canaria, looking at it from a historic perspective. Although using Guanches for any prehispanic peoples on the islands is common today, I would say that it is lazy. The inhabitants of Gran Canaria were called "Canarios", La Palma had "Benahoaritas", El Hierro had "Bimbaches", Lanzarote and Fuerteventura had "Majos" and finally La Gomera had "Gomeritas" and they did also have and still has the whistling language you incorrectly mention that Tenerife had, which it did not, and does not today either. The language was developed out of pure necessity because of the topography on La Gomera and is still in use there today and taught in school there. A whistling language certainly would not make much sense on Tenerife.
