Guanche Macaronesia

The Guanche had a decent agricultural package with sheep,goats and barley. They also built pyramids and were generally an interesting and mysterious culture. Yet, they lacked a maritime tradition and stayed within the Canary Islands. So, what would be needed for them to get a maritime tradition and colonize the rest of Macaronesia(Azores,Madeira,Cape Verde)? And maybe start up trade with the Carib on the Antilles?
 
The Guanche had a decent agricultural package with sheep,goats and barley. They also built pyramids and were generally an interesting and mysterious culture. Yet, they lacked a maritime tradition and stayed within the Canary Islands. So, what would be needed for them to get a maritime tradition and colonize the rest of Macaronesia(Azores,Madeira,Cape Verde)? And maybe start up trade with the Carib on the Antilles?
OK, a few more thoughts might be in order, since I find them interesting, too.
1.) They built pyramids like most other Berbers. Appears to be a habit of the Afro-Asiatic speaking groups of North Africa. Maybe the Egyptians started it and the others learned from them, maybe not. Berbers are said to have had a close relation to their ancestors and their spirits, i.e. prior to their conversion to any monotheistic faith. It´s this Berber faith that brought forth the oracle at Siwa, much farther in the East. Of course the Guanche will have sported a somewhat different variety maybe, given the distance and their insular isolation, but maybe the analogy is still enlightening.
2.) Colonising the other islands in the ocean only makes sense if your civilization works like the Polynesian one. We don`t know when and why the Guanche arrived on their islands in the first place, which is maybe why we also don`t know what stopped them from going further. Their civilization obviously worked in a different way; the colonisation of the Canaries was the rare exception. Changing that may imply changing A LOT about them.
3.) If the Guanche get more maritime, then a settlement of Madeira only makes sense as a stopover, Cape Verde only if they trade with Africa, and the Azores or even the Taino / Carib not at all. If they get more maritime, the most likely option is to start interacting and trading with what is today Morocco, Portugal, Spain, maybe Senegal, too. In the latter place, there was also still space for settlement. Guanche / Takrur interaction could have been interesting.
 
Population pressure maybe?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that population pressure and/or politics would have the Guanche spreading out more. Thing is, I'd like for a better timeline for them since they got screwed just as bad as the Native Americans and Oceanians.
 
OK, a few more thoughts might be in order, since I find them interesting, too.
1.) They built pyramids like most other Berbers. Appears to be a habit of the Afro-Asiatic speaking groups of North Africa. Maybe the Egyptians started it and the others learned from them, maybe not. Berbers are said to have had a close relation to their ancestors and their spirits, i.e. prior to their conversion to any monotheistic faith. It´s this Berber faith that brought forth the oracle at Siwa, much farther in the East. Of course the Guanche will have sported a somewhat different variety maybe, given the distance and their insular isolation, but maybe the analogy is still enlightening.
2.) Colonising the other islands in the ocean only makes sense if your civilization works like the Polynesian one. We don`t know when and why the Guanche arrived on their islands in the first place, which is maybe why we also don`t know what stopped them from going further. Their civilization obviously worked in a different way; the colonisation of the Canaries was the rare exception. Changing that may imply changing A LOT about them.
3.) If the Guanche get more maritime, then a settlement of Madeira only makes sense as a stopover, Cape Verde only if they trade with Africa, and the Azores or even the Taino / Carib not at all. If they get more maritime, the most likely option is to start interacting and trading with what is today Morocco, Portugal, Spain, maybe Senegal, too. In the latter place, there was also still space for settlement. Guanche / Takrur interaction could have been interesting.

The New World? I don't think they could spread out that far. Madeira is natural, maybe Cape Verde and the Azores, but any further? Guanche Bermuda would be interesting, but if skilled sailors like the natives of the Caribbean never reached there, I'm not sure why the Guanche would unless they developed Polynesian-tier maritime traditions.

And I thought they already had limited contacts with North Africa and Spain, though? Their language was probably related to Berber, after all.
 
The New World? I don't think they could spread out that far. Madeira is natural, maybe Cape Verde and the Azores, but any further? Guanche Bermuda would be interesting, but if skilled sailors like the natives of the Caribbean never reached there, I'm not sure why the Guanche would unless they developed Polynesian-tier maritime traditions.

And I thought they already had limited contacts with North Africa and Spain, though? Their language was probably related to Berber, after all.
I hopefully made it clear that I don`t think the New World was an option, either. It was just one of the things mentioned in the OP.
Polynesian-tier maritime traditions would indeed be what the Guanche needed to fulfill the challenge. Can we do that? Hm.
I always thought their language was Berber-related because they were emigrated Proto-Berbers. I think contacts with North Africa and Spain were few and far between, certainly not enough for linguistic assimilation. There`s a lot of room for improvement here. Without Polynesian-tier maritime traditions.
 
Contact with the Carib/Taino is best case scenario and out there I agree. Basically, what I'd like to see is for them to colonize the rest of Macaronesia, continue to build pyramids and not be driven into extinction as they were in original timeline. For the Guanche people and culture to be surviving and viable.
 
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