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PAGE TRANSFERED TO: http://www.piratesinfo.com/detail/detail.php?article_id=44 Pirates! Fact- General History Fact Legend Pirate Facts Main General History Types of Piracy Famous Pirates Pirate Facts Pirate Ships ... Pirate Vocabulary Welcome to Pirates! Fact- General History Introduction Ancient Piracy Roman Times Middle Ages Golden Years of Piracy Contemporary Pirates Golden Years of Piracy: Starting in XVI century piracy was gaining in popularity. Thanks to the progress of technology better, bigger and faster ships were built. Colonial expansion was beginning with all the shipping it created carrying gold and other goods. Competing interests and ambitions of colonial powers made it easy for ambitious sailors to always find a way to legalize the most cruel acts of piracy. English privateers could for instance attack and rob, with impunity, Spanish shipping. On the other hand North African pirates had a license to rob English ships and Madagascar pirates of the XVIII century represented French king’s interests. The continually, since ancient times, notorious was so called Barbary Coast , name formerly applied to the coast of North Africa from the western border of Egypt to the Atlantic Ocean. From the 1500s to the 1800s the coast was occupied by independent Islamic states under the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire. In the early 1500s, these states became centers for pirates.

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MM_preloadImages('images/links1.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/home1.gif'); Not Just For Kids (A Mini Unit Study) PIRATES Piracy-the business of robbery on the high seas-has been around as long as ships have carried goods across the ocean. Sea robbers have been called by many names-pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, marooners, marauders, freebooters, filibusters, sea rovers, sea wolves, sea dogs, and privateers. They have often been glorified as nautical Robin Hoods and maritime heroes. Some pirates were great navigators, mapmakers, or explorers, and many were remarkably courageous. But they were also known to be cruel villains, terrorists, cutthroats, and murderers. Even though piracy was punishable by hanging, many seamen were willing to take the risk. Some outlaws took to piracy to get rich quick. Many pirates had fled from the widespread miseries of poverty, unemployment, indentured servitude, or slavery; or had been recruited as deserters from armies and navies. Others were attracted by the free existence and boisterous lifestyle that piracy seemed to offer. Sometimes sailors on merchant ships would rebel against their captain and take over the ship. These sailors could not go back home because they would be thrown in jail, so they would become pirates. Captives sometimes voluntarily joined the pirates. The Phoenicians, early navigators on the Mediterranean Sea, raided cargo ships in that area. The Roman Empire was never able to rid the Mediterranean of pirates, and even Julius Caesar was a prisoner of pirates at one time. Vikings, or Norsemen, seized ships and raided villages in northern and western Europe from the eighth to the tenth centuries. Muslim "Barbary Coast" pirates operated from bases in North Africa and sold many Christians into slavery during the Crusades.

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