HI127 Lecture 1: Lecture 1
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Agnus konstam: pirates talks about how pirates are deadly, violent, criminals. Marcus redicker: pirates express(ed) the collecivisic ethos of life at sea by the egalitarian and comradely distribuion of life chances and the just allocaion of the shares". O privateer: an individual licensed by a government to atack and plunder ships from other enemy naions. Their licence allows them to atack enemy ships on the open seas: o leter or marque: a privateer"s contract with a government. O buccaneers: english, dutch, or french raiders who preyed on the spanish" during the seventeenth century. O swashbuckler: twenieth century term for a pirate in literature and ilm. O pirate: someone who robs from others at sea and who acts beyond the law," regardless of naionality. Ancient pirates: lukkans -1340bce, sea peoples 1220- 1186bce, cilicians 133-67bce. Started raiding cyprus in 1300bce and had allies with the kingdom. One leter we know today come from the lukkans today (plunderer by sea).
