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The age of European colonization arguably began before the discovery and conquest of the Americas but with the conquest of the Canary Islands. The Guanches a somewhat mysterious people fought European lords and the Spanish crown off and on for nearly a 100 years before they were subdued about the same time the conquest of the new world was picking up.