What POD would be necessary to give the Romans an impetus to colonize the Canary Islands?
What POD would be necessary to give the Romans an impetus to colonize the Canary Islands?
The Canary islands themselves? Probably if the Guanche were raiding trade from the British Isles to the Mediterranean. Interfere in the tin trade, and the Romans come with an army, conquer the islands, and settle them/fortify them.
Any sort of threat that makes the cost of ignoring them greater than the cost of dealing with them.
The Guanche didn´t know rafts so it would be impossible for them to become a raiding people.
What POD would be necessary to give the Romans an impetus to colonize the Canary Islands?
What POD would be necessary to give the Romans an impetus to colonize the Canary Islands?
The situation of the Guanche as a isolated people remind me of the Sentinelese of the Andaman islands.
I like the idea of a Roman-influenced Canaries becoming a tributary to the empire, maybe a portion of the Vandals and Suebi invade the island and establish a tropical Germanic kingdom?
Guanche had enough contact with North Africa that european explorers made contact and found a Guanche arabic speaker.The situation of the Guanche as a isolated people remind me of the Sentinelese of the Andaman islands.
Sugar introduced into Rome by the 2nd century AD, sugar growing land around the Mediterranean is overplanted, Rome goes for a conquest of the Canary Islands?
A sugar colony seems like a good way of making such a scheme viable, but as has been said their needs to be a motivation in the first place.