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What is a buccaneer? |
English, dutch or french raiders who preyed on the Spanish during the seventeenth century In French called a Filibuster |
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Lukkans |
Earliest recorded pirates Based in modern day turkey Attack Cyprus in1340 BCE - Egypt new kingdom Egypt recorded letters with information about the attack |
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Pompey the Great |
Defeated the Clinicians They were threatening their Grain supply Pompey was put in charge and sent out ships and in 3 months was able to destroy the Cillian ships |
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Nombre De Dois |
Drake turned to Cimaroons for help to attack Spain mule trains The hid in the bushes on the path, one of the pirates was drunk and spoiled the mission |
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Cimaroons |
Africans who are free from slavery and living in another country |
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Chargers River |
Largest River in Panama Supporter of many pirates attacks |
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Golden Hind |
An english galleon Captained by Sir Francis Drake |
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Khair-ed-Din |
Nickname of Hizir Barbarsooa Head of the Barbary corsairs, and was determined to avenge the death of his two brothers |
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Privateer |
An individual licensed by a government to attack and plunder ships from enemy nations |
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Sea Peoples |
6 tribes responsible for the downfall of the bronze age Attacked by Sea and in large numbers The first organized pirate federation in history Attacked Egypt and Mediterranean Pharaoh Rameses II "The Great" beat the Sea Peoples in the Battle of Nile Delta |
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Danegeld |
A taxed raised to pay tribute to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged Also known as gafol or geld |
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Tierra Firme |
Drake expedition on norther coast of south America End of this mission with only 30 men, the rest died |
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Veracruz |
Huge shipping port in Mexico John Hawkins boat needed repairing so pretended to be a Spanish ship to go into harbour They let them in but attacked them in port Hawkins left with 30 men and two boats |
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Barbary Corsairs |
Northern African, Muslim Barbary European phrase; BerBer northern native African group Corsairs Privateer (licensed by the state) |
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Malta |
Knights of St. john's moved here after being kicked out by ottoman Home base of the Knights Given to them from King Charles I 1798: Napoleon attacked Malta |
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Knights Hospitaller of St. John |
Founded in Jerusalem (Hospital) Moved to Rhodes ands stayed there for a couple of hundred of years Ottomans pushed them across the Mediterranean |
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Captain Charles Johnson |
Author of the 1724 book "A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates" Identity remains a mystery Just showed up at a bookstore one day May have been Daniel Defoe Prime source for the biographies of many well-known pirates |
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Letter of Marque |
A privateers contract with a government |
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Proper pirate |
Someone who robs from others at sea, and acts beyond the law regardless of nationality |
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Swashbuckler |
Twentieth century term for a pirate in literature and film |
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Clinicians |
Located in a place with a small narrow shipping route for towns that had lots of caves to attack from Attacked Seleucid Empire in 190 BCE Captured Julius Caesar - breaking roman laws Julius was able to escape and came back and crucified them all |
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Lindisfarne |
Holy island off the northeast coast of England Start of viking age Vikings attacked the IslandT The monastery gets attacked Destroyed the church on the island Monks taken into slavery |
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Cartagena |
Second important port in the Spanish main Considered the richest prize in the americas Port was extremely well-defended Drake attacked with Cimaroons, and had a successful raid on the city Only 30 casualties on his side |
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John Hawkins |
Slave Trader and privateer Was one of the first privateer sent over to Spanish waters Was incharge for preparing the Elizabeth navy to take on the Spanish Armada |
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Francis Drake |
Attacked Normre de Dios (Panama) Had the support of Queen Elizabeth the first Known for surviving a horrible store in South America as he was going the long way around to attack peru (1577) Experienced sea captain since his teens Participated in some of Hawkins expeditions |
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Algiers |
Conquered by spanish Argue Barbarossa conquered it (1st try he lost and arm, 2nd time he succeeded) Hot spot for Barbary Corsairs British/US/French attack British take Algiers French occupied Algiers until 1963 |
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Narantines |
Pirates with pagan beliefs Vikings The Narentines was a South Slavic tribe that occupied an area of southern Dalmatia centered at the river Neretva (Narenta), active in the 9th and 10th centuries, noted as pirates on the Adriatic. |
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Rio De La Hatcha |
Hurrican Season 200 men to occupy town Lead men to treasure |
