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basically atlanto berberids and berberids
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No, they were not. That is a myth. I have posted this many times:
According the English hispanist Hugh Thomas in his book The Spanish Empire, there were around 21.500 Guanches in the Canary Islands during the Spanish conquest: 6.000 in Gran Canaria, 14.000 in Tenerife and 1.500 in the rest of the islands.
Many of them were dead due to diseases in the contact with Europeans, many more due to the war, and a few more were sold as slaves in Andalusia.
Well, Cristobal Colón said, textually, "the Guanches are not nor light nor dark colour", and in the registers of the slave market they are called both "light-skinned" and "dark-skinned".
According to the French conquerors, the Guanches "were tall and formidable."
Depending on the island some Guanches were lighter than others. There was not contact between the different islands because the Guanches did not know the navigation, and it´s a mystery how they arrived there"
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