Historic review of the CANARIAN Spanish CONCEPT

The first inhabitants of the archipelago got to islands in successive surges, most things from the north of the African proximate continent. The development of prehistoric cultures permitted the very hierarchized establishment of a social organization with a political structure of monarchical character, and a series of collegiate organs that were meeting to settle out military subjects, politicians or juridical in the named Tagoror. The society was divided in two groups ( in Tenerife they were three ), a sort of nobility that in turn was dominating plebeians's great majority. Underneath these, considered vile occupations, like executioners and butchers. They were cattle towns ( goats, sheep and pigs ) and farmers ( wheaten cultivations, barley and beans, the ones that they were getting the gofio from ) with a diet that was completed with the roots anthology and seafood. Although he knows her to this culture like Guanche, this name corresponds strictly to the one belonging to Tenerife's inhabitants.

Canary Islands were known in the classical time ( right now Horacio and Plinio talk about them ), but XIV when he begins his conquest for the European is the century. It is common knowledge than, from 1291, various Genoese expeditions began to get to the archipelago and, later, of Aragonese and mallorquines. In the century XV, the promoters of the conquest were the noble the Salle's Gadifer and Norman Bethencourt's John that were to the service of Castilian crown. The overtaking of islands did himself with difficulties and he lasted for all the century almost. Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Hierro and The Gomera were of stately jurisdiction ( islands of dominion ), while the Great Canaria, The Palm and Tenerife were crown's property ( islands of royal ).

The colonization initiated of systematic manner in centuries XVI and XVII with the peninsula's demographic appropriate base itself. The aborigines had suffered some losses in his population during the conquest, most things deported like slaves or for diseases, even though they lasted for the two third parts of the total that would integrate in the new society.

In a first epoch, cultivations for the obtaining of sugar were they who what else they extended : Cane plantations, next to sugar cane processing plants, were authentic towns that were growing, besides, wheat and another internal consumer goods. Soon it was necessary to establish new cultivations to supply to the fleets that were stopping in his journeys to America; Thus the cereals fields stretched out and, most of all he came from the one that was gotten from, of vine,, that he ended up becoming one of his principal commercial products. During centuries XV and XVI, he created the real High Court, the Inquisition's tribunal, episcopal headquarters and insular town councils than, presided at for a governor ( designee for the king or for the mister correspondent, according to out of here stately island or of royal ), it was in effect at the respective island.

In the century XVIII, a crisis caused by the loud fall of wine-growing commerce produced itself, but commercial liberalization and the modification of some cultivations he provoked, in spite of whole, a certain blossoming cheap to run as from second half of the century: The population almost duplicated, reaching toward 1800 ones 200,000 inhabitants, according to official polls sufficiently reliable no. In the political order, an authority passed the commanders in chief, nominees for the crown to the disadvantage of the attributions of the town councils of the same audience, and. In the century XIX reactivated the economy with the extension of the cultivation of the barilla ( to obtain soda ) and the wood louse. When, as from 1871, it was begun to manufacture crimson with chemical colorants, he demands it of wood louse almost he disappeared ; As from this epoch, Canarian emigration toward Spanish America, specially to Cuba, he was very important. The first decades of the century were XX of growth due to the expansion of the cultivations of banana and tomato, and to the creation of free ports.

The Carib's colonization of numerous islands gave Canary Islands a prominence privileged like obliged platform right now from that first moment of Spanish influence, and to long of the following two centuries, necessary for planning and administrative control of the America Hispana in all of the órdenes and so that he would be a vast empire from across the sea, as the grancanario enrolls the professor to us Julio Hernández.

Venezuela or Cuba, whose linkage is the one that specially is interested to us, maintained that relation more than no royal other in the world Hispanic, due to be the another platform of the other side of the Atlantic, and for constant migrations among both whose influence is appreciated in numerous facets that they reach to the one belonging to art or the literature without discarding the anthropological and ethnographic facet, from the social and economic.

Artistic manifestations located in several populations of America, specially at big cities, they arrived to crosswise of regional Canarian art. The complicated Mudejar artisanships of influence are outstanding islander, as well as typical houses culture during Spanish colonization influences Cubans about a central patio with enormous wooden rows of balconies that the ones belonging to the island of The Palm or the of the city ones belonging to The Lagoon, Vegueta of Palms remind to perfectly Great Canaria, Garachico, among others, for white of egg

Varied of the photos that they follow XIX, the tourist foreign majority are the reflection of those corporate structures that photographers, contemporaries materialized from intentions of the century that they visited these islands of paradisiacal climate.

In 1912 the division of islands at two provinces established Cabildos's Law and, in 1927, itself. During all this epoch he consolidated the power of a chaste arrogance and caciquil, very divided among Tenerife's leading group of Palms and the one belonging to St. Cross, that were in rivalry for the control of the archipelago: This would be the origin of the so-called insular fight, that he has marked negatively the Canarian history of the latter century and than, unfortunately, he persists as of the present moment.

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