6 sentences with “piracy”

In caliphate-controlled waters, piracy was contained, so trade flourished even more.

Simultaneously, the Avars and Bulgars, steppe peoples related to the Huns, were pressing on Byzantine territory from the north, and piracy was spreading across the Mediterranean.

Pompey was one of the greatest Roman generals, and soon left to eliminate piracy in the Mediterranean, conquer the Jewish kingdom of Judea and crush an ongoing revolt in Anatolia.

This, in turn, led to widespread piracy and conflict between the powers of Europe in their colonial territories, as they sought to seize profitable lands and assert their respective monopolies.

In the case of China, Japan and the Philippines, for example, local rulers learned that the easiest way to deal with European piracy was not to try to fight European ships, but to cut off trade with European merchants until restitution was paid.

France authorised Genêt to issue letters of marquee - documents authorising ships and their crews to engage in piracy - to allow him to arm British ships captured in American ports with American soldiers. Genêt arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, amid great Democratic-Republican fanfare.