The History of Piracy - Summary on a Map

In this video, let’s retrace the history of piracy, from the first mentions during antiquity until today.
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English translation & voiceover: Matthew Bates www.epicvoiceover.com/
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Original French version: • L'histoire de la pirat...
Russian version: • Пиратство - краткая ис...
Arabic version: • القرصنة
Spanish version: • La historia de la pira...
Portuguese version (Brazil): Coming soon
Japanese version: • 海賊の歴史
Korean version: Coming soon
German version: • Die Geschichte der Pir...
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Music: World War Outerspace - Audio Hertz (KZbin Library)
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Software: Adobe After Effects
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Chapters
00:00 Piracy during the Antiquity
01:45 Northern Europe
03:42 Privateers
06:01 The Wokou and the Barbary pirates
08:12 Golden Age of Piracy
09:46 The “Pirate Round”
11:56 End of the golden age of piracy
14:35 British rise to power
16:41 British domination
18:23 Modern piracy
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#history #geohistory #piracy #onepiece

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Its nice you remembered the password after 2 months and casually returned to talk about pirates

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[@tommy-er6hh]

Pretty thorough video. But you missed some pirates, and there is probably more: 1. The Jewish Pirates because of Spain's expulsion of the Jews. 2. The earlier Malacca Pirates of Indonesia before the Europeans arrived.. 3. The Haida First Nation "pirate tribe" of British Columbia that pillaged other natives from Alaska down to Acapulco in Mexico. 4. Pirates on the California coast during the 1850's looking for gold being shipped. 5. Pirates on the Pacific Spanish colony coast and later on the same coast during independence and after. 6. The Christian Pirates of Malta and Rhodes vs the Muslims.

[@LaughingStud]

😮

[@mrbaab5932]

He mentioned the fake converts to Christianity that were expulsed from Spain becoming pirates in Morocco, but did not mention they were Jews. Also the Muslims originally conquered Spain and Portugal with mainly Sephardic Jewish Berber horseman.

[@miliba]

For nr. 4 I remember reading a Zorro comic book where Zorro interacted with pirates in California

[@si2foo]

he also missed out on the most famous female pirate ever the Pirate Queen of the south china sea

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[@kingace6186]

Fun fact: Queen Elizabeth I was not only called "the Faerie Queene, Titania," but also a literal "Pirate Queen" because of her huge, private armada of pirates.

[@signoguns8501]

History was so fucking badass and epic. Why dont we have pirate queens nowadays? I want pirate queens.

[@kingace6186]

@@signoguns8501 Don't we all

[@Chadius_Thundercock]

@@signoguns8501 because we realized kings and queens are retarded

[@shishirprabhakarsingh4884]

@@kingace6186 no

[@lloyd9500]

@@signoguns8501 Well, you have a pirate king by the name of Vladimir Putin. All those grain exports leaving Ukraine? Seized. Careful what you wish for.

[@HoV326]

Fun fact: Olivier Levasseur and the paper that he dropped that spoke of a hidden treasure that can be claimed by whomever finds it would be the inspiration for Gol D. Roger and pretty much the main plot of the anime, One Piece

[@jackylynn]

Thank you, finally someone who noticed.

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The One Piece is actually real?!

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[@marcop.525]

His son's name is ironic 🔥☠️🔥

[@singularityraptor4022]

My only disappointment is the failure to mention piracy in Malacca Strait during 10th-11th century conducted by Srivijya through hiring pirates/privateers.

[@gradipadia9800]

Ah yes... that business venture pissed off the Chinese and Indians so much, especially the Indians, the Chola Dynasty raided Sri Vijaya to it's fall making the Cholas the Master of pretty much Southeast Asia and Southern India.

[@Bayano6]

Also, the fact that they didn't mention Ching Shih. She is one first people I think of when it comes to piracy, especially in asia

[@p00bix]

Yeah, this video was a tad too Eurocentric. So much important pre-Modern piracy in the Indian and Western Pacific oceans is totally missing.

[@lukaswilhelm9290]

Yeah, the founder of Srivijaya empire himself was a pirates grand admiral. Piracy in South East Asia was pretty common even various sources noted that pirates from Sumatra, Malaya and Java conduct piracy as far as coast of Madagascar.

[@jannis3356]

Pirates then: skilled sailors who steal years worth of wages Pirates now : Haha, free game goes brrr

[@georgejoestarii9469]

A rubber man with Curly Pinnochio scare crow looking man, Skeleton Man, RedHead, Green hair with swords, Toy Deer.

[@xjm4reals]

This was great, though I feel like the famous female Chinese pirate leader, Zheng Yi Sao (also known as Ching Shih) and her husand and his son’s story would have been a good addition to include. From Wikipedia: “As the unofficial commander of the Guangdong Pirate Confederation, her fleet was composed of 400 junks and between 40,000 and 60,000 pirates in 1805. Her ships entered into conflict with several major powers, such as the East India Company, the Portuguese Empire, and Qing China.”

[@hotmixal]

Captain Kidd : “You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain”

[@Gerald12345]

Basically Star Wars

[@llamingo696]

The world has truly entered a great pirate era!

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And it will grow larger!

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THE ONE PIECE!

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[@Damncaterer]

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[@mr.m8176]

13:57 "the buzzard" truly was on verge of starting the great pirate era.

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[@valentinramirez9064]

All of pirate history: Coutries: hire pirates to attack enemy fleet. "Years later" Coutries: war is won, you can stop now. Pirates: No Coutries: surprised Pikachu face

[@stateofflorida5082]

I like that you mentioned Irish piracy. We've had a surprisingly long history of the craft, all the way up into the golden age where a number of prominent pirates were of Irish descent.

[@Rowlph8888]

Corrupt Paddy's

[@daltonmiller5590]

"We've" Username: "Florida" Just because you have Irish ancestry does not make you Irish.

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@@daltonmiller5590 actually it's because both my parents are Irish and I live in Ireland. Éirinn go brach, mo chara.

[@evanyes5762]

The famous female pirate Anne Bonny was from Ireland.

[@thedstorm8922]

@@evanyes5762 bonny? Oh so that were the inspiration of the character jewelry bonney from one piece came from

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[@ariemugisatriaji8928]

14:30 was the inspiration behind Gol D. Roger last speech on One Piece

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For anyone wondering: Assasin's Creed IV roughly begins at 12:28

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Underrated comment

[@carsage8836]

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[@Lacteagalaxia]

Piracy was the main reason for the creation of " Flota de Indias" / " Fleet of the Indies" between America and Spain for almost 3:centuries it was created by the King of Spain and Emperor " Charles V " in 1.522 and it was great succes since when it was heavily scorted the atacks in the Ocean practically ceased there was also another that conected Mexico with the Phillipines and vice versa

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[@daveholechko874]

I think it is quite funny that this video came out today. This whole semester I was learning about the history of the pirates and such.

[@anubratabit3027]

10:37 The Ganj-i-Sawai was carrying Muslim pilgrims returning from Hajj in Mecca & amongst the captives was reputed to be the grand-daughter of the then Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. This incident of piracy enraged Aurangzeb so much that he had almost kicked out the British from India & launched a brutal campaign against their garrisons. Had he completely wiped out the British from India, history would have gone in a completely different way. In addition, I would like to say that pirates also operate in Sunderbans (divided between the Indian state of West Bengal & Bangladesh), capturing locals who venture into the forests to collect honey and catch fish & crabs for a living. This area with its criss-cross network of creeks & tidal rivers flowing through the largest mangrove forest in the world which also harbours Bengal tigers & gharials (Indian fish-eating crocodiles) with an international border through it has become a den of piracy, who also happen to operate a side-business of poaching animals.

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[@abrahamherzl9904]

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[@ASmallPartofHistory]

Another lesser-known fact about the history of piracy is the role that piracy played in the development of international law. The 1856 Declaration of Paris, which established rules for the conduct of naval warfare, was partly inspired by the desire to combat piracy and protect legitimate trade.

[@MiguelFelicio]

It's amazing how Portugal isn't almost mentioned when it was a major player

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13:54 Portuguese have the biggest catch 🏆. ... That was taken ☠️💀🦜

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Amazing that so many places on earth were included in the video

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Its piracy what do you expect?

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15:29 I appreciate that you acknowledged that Egypt was not controlled by the Ottomans in 1799 but then recaptured due to napoleon

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[@zento1702]

Great video! Denmark-Norway fought a war against pirats from Algiria, known as the Danish-Algirian war, from 1769-1772.

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I'm so so happy to learn more about the Ottomans as I wrote a five page essay and a presentation about Turkey!

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A lot of real life situations have been reimagined into the One Piece anime. Pretty cool

[@FloridatedH2O]

Piracy in the Persian Gulf got a brief mention, but should have been acknowledged as being one of the old sources of piracy for human civilization. Similarly, I think East Asian piracy should have gotten an earlier mention than the Wokou. Also could have mentioned that elimination of piracy in the Indian ocean was the main stated goal in at least one of Umayyad conquests in India.

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[@Gerald12345]

Nice video it explains a lot of good information for a book i'd read, but you forgot to mention why the rum is gone.

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[@dantetre]

With the rising prices of the streaming platforms, more and more people become a pirate! :P

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Great book "The Lost Village" where that incident in Baltimore happened in west Cork

[@richardkut3976]

Good history, like the time line.

[@Durzo1259]

At 17:40 when it says "The British kingdom could now rely on its' much more powerful steamships," what exactly made them so much more powerful than frigates and galleons, and in what way?

[@George83_Thomas]

For the same size, a steamship could move faster than a sailing ship and didn’t have to rely on the wind. Trying to match the speed with more sails really wasn’t practical because it would increase the complexity of the rigging and would fatigue the superstructure too much. So sails fell out of use for anything needing to be relatively fast, large and versatile. All that said, there was a brief period of ship designs that incorporated both sail and steam propulsion. l for one would like to see more media covering that transitional time

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The information is really easy to understand! I love it!

[@barrybaarsma]

yeah because its super basic and missing alot of info XD

[@gunnarfranzen9166]

@@barrybaarsma what do you expect from a 20 minute video lol? Its a great summary of the most important things and is in no way meant to be a boring lecture, but an interesting video made even better by the way of production.

[@barrybaarsma]

@@gunnarfranzen9166 okay but then why call it THE history of piracy its some history of piracy plus with out all that other stuff u really not learning anything XD im just saying if you think this is giving u insight in the subject its just a weak touch of what it really is or went down so no its not a great summary it kinda works into stereotypes and wrong misconceptions in history and trust me 70 % of the "important things" weren't mentioned in this just because you learning something doenst mean you learning something correct XD, why you think everybody is rewashing history because they them self were to lazy to read upon a subject and went along with it, its a great video but it kinda revolves around stereotypes....

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Thank you very much for your support and requests. I will try my best to always produce more and more videos with various different topics !

[@metalc0readd1ct]

As someone who finished Assassins creeds : Black flag 8 times by now(that much i love the game) i love seeing history of pirates

[@Jojogrec]

Overall a good video. I would however personally have preferred if some of the time currently spent on specific famous pirates instead had gone into the origins and nature of piracy in different regions, which currently is glossed over. There could for an example have been explained the causes behind the tradition of raiding among vikings and other peoples around the Baltic, which, along with the religious beliefs of the vikings, explaining more the nature of the Viking pillaging and trade, which could lead into better explaining why and how the tradition ended. Most notably is the exclusion of anything about river piracy. I only have limited knowledge of it, but I for example believe that there should have been widespread river piracy in china for at least part of history.

[@drawyourattention213]

You're a lot informative than before. I love it

[@AKAZA-kq8jd]

During the period between Caesar and Pompey piracy in the Mediterranean it was pretty high raids of pirates after the fall the Greek Kingdoms of Alexander empire a lot of unstability Syria all the way down to Egypt think of it as the midwest at the time.

[@TheSuperhoden]

You forgot about the "watergeuzen", basically a pirate army that was one of the reasons of the 80 years war and also one of the reasons the Dutch won their independence.

[@Gorboduc]

In English they're called the "Sea Beggars", not to be confused with the "Sea Dogs", also sponsored by Queen Elizabeth. For a virgin queen she sure spent a lot of time with sailors. 🤔

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Great work!!!! Please a video on Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)

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[@geekyzebra91]

Crazy to think that there are still pirates today

[@Vihtori_Lettunen]

And here I thought this video was about illegal software distribution. I was pleasantly surprised. 😄

[@czar6203]

Damn Caesar. Imagine you bailed out and said “why am I so cheap!?”

[@EnjauladorDeMigranteS]

😅😅😅

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

You missed a lot of pirates,for example the frisians and anglosaxons were practically like vikings raiding islands.

[@WisdomLearner]

Popular media regarding piracy in Asia is so few. Though it is so interesting l. As it involves so many nations.

[@angelolivares5666]

How come is it not mentioned that Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, was captured by Barbary pirates?

[@outworld15]

I love the consistently contextualised, put-in-perspective, concise and well researched presentation but I must express disappointment at the fact that there is not a single mention of Edward Kenway, his meeting with Captain Woodes Rogers or even his conspicuous assassination of Governor Torres...

[@Dolando19]

missed opportunity to play some sea shanties in the background

[@x0lopossum]

2:40 I didn't know this.😊 3:45 Hmmm, Ottoman pirates. 4:20 Europeans privateers

[@Lemosa3414]

Byzantines also had a lot of trouble with Arabian pirates, mainly after the fall of the Umayyad Caliphate which left a lot of places in North Africa and some islands unruly

[@tylando313]

The only pirates I know be like “arrgh, ye matey, walk the plank… why’s all the rum gone?”

[@aliriks8974]

Man I am literally writing my MA thesis in piracy right now due in June, it feels creepy how this released just now haha

[@yeuuuiuup7714]

Didn't this video leave out pirates from East Asia. Korea, Japan and China all dealt with pirates from each others nations throughout the centuries

[@gradipadia9800]

Try researching about how the Sri Vijaya Empire used privateers and how it's one of the causes of it's fall, by pissing off China and India interrupting trade in the Mallacca Strait and do a research on pirate king Koxinga and pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao.

[@yungfiend6830]

Pirates used to be a lot more common worldwide. A good rule of thumb to go by is if there’s unprotected trade routes there’s most likely pirates too. Honestly this could’ve been a 4hr video if you went into detail about ALL the pirates. But you just glanced them. It’s a pretty mid video. Basically just information read off from a Wikipedia article.

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Can you please do a Video on either the History of Australia or the Troubles of Northern Ireland or the pls?

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Bravo 🎉

[@CallMeByMyMatingName]

6:35 "and all of which, China is desperately short... Of."

[@majormung8304]

Pretty sure caesar didnt end up crucifying the pirates who captured him. He exucuted them but didnt crucify them.

[@exhaustive_the_sixth]

Pirates then were a sea riders, pirates now are an internet riders, who searching for information.

[@thetexc]

La Buse: the real life Gol D. Roger. Now who’s Luffy?

[@Luzitanium]

the video didnt even mentioned the piracy between Japan and China where the Portuguese fought and ended it and because of that China gave Macau to the Portuguese.

[@chroniclesofcomedyworld1512]

Can you do a remaster of the indian video, it would really make my day, and btw. Lovely video

[@TheImperialistOne]

how do you make your maps/invasions?

[@tatjanamarjanovic5077]

Nice

[@19ate4]

Great history lesson of Europeans naval prowess

[@5thMilitia]

How are you able to not even name the most succesfull privateer: Piet Hein. Very Anglo-centric docu

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[@G_Serra]

Is very sad you forgot all the piracy on the mediterranean during middle ages. War against them is the key of the Conquest of Mallorca and Balearic Islands by catalans, and then, they stablish all navigation rules on the book "Consolat the Mar" wich resumes to obligation of using navigation flags and other important rules basic for nowadays navigation

[@achourfreepalestine]

i remember reading about the so called barbary pirates in algerian history they are called jihadists and i kinda agree with that like bro they were practicing their naval domination thing

[@cmd7930]

They targeted women and children What naval domination? European navies would smoke them.

[@callme_daniel]

12:00, is Bahamas mention, the Republic of Pirates

[@Trenderoftiger]

Depends on what you mean with pirates, but technically you cant be a pirate in the baltic sea because all the water is inside economiczones it needs to be in international waters to be Pirates legally.

[@Manas_62]

Hi bro make a video about the Altai language family please

[@richardhussey-cq2se]

The Golden Age of Piracy was thought too be between 1680 and 1730 I think.

[@high4702]

Were not Zaporozhian Cossacks the same pirates? Sahaidachny for example or Ivan Sirko?

[@darksecret6050]

I'm disappointed he didn't talk about pirate hub and torrent

[@chrisclancy6756]

Please do history of the Wild West/Cowboys and maybe also history of the Mafia

[@smartguy9765]

With all these streaming services and their prices, I can assure you piracy is alive and well today

[@mephstv]

Thank god, I got tired of learning about the history of walls

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Please make 1. History of islam 2. History of VOC (asia colonialism) 3. Asia decolonization 4. History of automobile 5. History of rome 👍👍

[@stevefairley2535]

Should do a video of the UK about Scotland and England... William Wallace and work up to the Red coats

[@luisvillafane3210]

This is the Birth of the Pirates of the Caribbean Franchise