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    The Golden Age of Piracy is a common designation for the period between the 1650s and the 1730s, when maritime piracy was a significant factor in the...
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    Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the Works and Days of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples...
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    were otherwise rarely allowed on pirate ships. On many ships in the Golden Age of Piracy, women were prohibited by the ship's contract (required to be signed...
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    key piratical figures and a semi-accurate description of their milieu in the "Golden Age of Piracy" to the public's imagination. The General History inspired...
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    A golden age is a period considered the peak in the history of a country or people, a time period when the greatest achievements were made. The term originated...
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    in Nassau on New Providence island in the Bahamas during the Golden Age of Piracy for about twelve years from 1706 until 1718. While it was not a republic...
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  • Black Sails (TV series) (category Television series set in the Golden Age of Piracy)
    events of Treasure Island, during the Golden Age of Piracy. Feared Captain Flint brings on a younger crew member as they fight for the survival of New Providence...
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  • Skull and Bones (video game) (category Video games set in the Golden Age of Piracy)
    piracy and naval warfare with a fantastical setting in East Africa and Southeast Asia during the late 17th century, the peak of the historical Golden...
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  • of the same name. The film series serves as a major component of the titular media franchise. Based on a fictionalized version of the Golden Age of Piracy...
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  • This is a list of pirate films and TV series, primarily in the pirate film genre, about the Golden Age of Piracy from the 17th through 18th centuries...
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  • The Lost Pirate Kingdom (category Television series set in the Golden Age of Piracy)
    fall of the eponymous early-18th century pirate republic based in Nassau, Bahamas. The series begins in 1715, shortly after the close of the War of the...
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  • during the final decades of the Golden Age of Piracy. During this time, he plays an important role in the establishment of a short-lived Pirate Republic...
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    Edward Low (section Piracy)
    or Loe; 1690–1724) was a notorious pirate of English origin during the latter days of the Golden Age of Piracy, in the early 18th century. Low was born...
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    The era of piracy in the Caribbean began in the 1500s and phased out in the 1830s after the navies of the nations of Western Europe and North America with...
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    Mary Read (category Date of birth unknown)
    among the few women known to have been convicted of piracy at the height of the "Golden Age of Piracy". Read was born in England between 1680 and 1693...
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  • their main theme centered around the golden age of piracy. Alestorm's 4th studio album, Sunset on the Golden Age, was released on August 1, 2014. Alestorm...
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  • Exchange, 1880. (p. 510) Lunsford, Virginia West (2005). Piracy and Privereering in the Golden Age Netherlands. US: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 56–64. ISBN 1-4039-6692-3...
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    Peary's 1891 expedition of the Greenland Arctic. Despite the pop-culture association of the concertina with the Golden Age of Piracy, the concertina was invented...
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  • role of an unnamed Abstergo employee tasked with scanning the memories of Edward Kenway, a privateer-turned-pirate during the Golden Age of Piracy and...
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    the era of the Renaissance; these may include earlier medieval periods such as the Viking Age or later periods such as the Golden Age of Piracy. Some engage...
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    Calico Jack (category People executed for piracy)
    nickname for "John". Rackham was active towards the end (1718–1720) of the "Golden Age of Piracy". He is most remembered for having two female crew members: Mary...
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  • Pirates of the Caribbean. He was attracted to the idea of using modern technology to resurrect a genre that had disappeared after the Golden Age of Hollywood...
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    early 18th century (the latter part of the Golden Age of Piracy). The vast majority of such flags flew the motif of a human skull, or “Death's Head”, often...
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    became common in the film genre, which extended the genre to the Golden Age of Piracy. As swashbuckler stories are often mixed with the romance genre,...
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    Toby Stephens (category Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
    prequel to Treasure Island, set in the early 18th century during the Golden Age of Piracy. In 2016, he was cast as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair...
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  • Our Flag Means Death (category Television series set in the Golden Age of Piracy)
    Jenkins. Set in the early 18th century during the Golden Age of Piracy, the series follows the misadventures of gentleman-turned-pirate Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby)...
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  • (Europe, 1453–1789) Age of Discovery (or Exploration) (Europe, c. 1400 – 1770) Polish Golden Age (Poland, 1507–1572) Golden Age of Piracy (1650–1730) Tudor...
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    Joseph Bannister (category People executed for piracy)
    during the Golden Age of Piracy. He is best known for defeating two Royal Navy warships in battle. Bannister was captain of the merchant ship Golden Fleece...
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  • Black Caesar (pirate) (category Piracy in the Caribbean)
    during the Golden Age of Piracy. He served aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge of Edward Teach (Blackbeard) and was one of the surviving members of that crew...
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    "Pirate Havens in the Golden Age of Piracy". World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2023-04-06. Lane, Kris (2010-05-10). "Piracy". Oxford Bibliographies...
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