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Types of Pirates
The Life of a Pirate
Famous Pirates
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Pirate Vocabulary
100
These pirates lived in the Caribbean and orginally hunted pigs.
Buccaneers
100
What did the pirates call their list of rules?
articles
100
This pirate was also know as Edward Teach.
Blackbeard
100
These pirates wanted Spanish galleons, spices, and gold.
privateers
100
deadlights
What are eyes?
200
These pirates carried Letters of Mark to protect them from capture.
Privateers
200
What disease was caused by not a deficiency of vitamin c?
scurvy
200
These two women pirates became good friends.
Anne Bonny and Mary Read
200
These pirates wanted EVERYTHING!
Vikings
200
ahoy
What is hello?
300
These pirates were also called "beserkers."
Vikings
300
Where does the phrase "shake a leg" come from?
Pirates would have to hang one leg over their hammock to let the crewman know if they were heard and alive.
300
This pirate was hung in an iron cage and left to dangle in an English harbor.
Captain Kidd
300
These pirates captured so much wheat that people began to starve.
Romans
300
grub
What is pirate food?
400
These pirates attacked ancient cities protected by high, white, stone walls.
Greeks
400
What creature spead disease throughout the ship?
rat
400
This pirate became the govenor of Jamaica.
Sir Henry Morgan
400
These pirates used slaves to capture silver, copper, and amber.
Greeks
400
avast
What is to stop?
500
These pirates fought using Janissaries and fought during the Holy Wars.
Corsairs
500
About what fraction of a pirate crew would perish during a voyage?
half
500
Some say this man turned to piracy because of a nagging wife. He had enought money to buy a ship and hire a pirate crew.
Stede Bonnet
500
Name one of the two top treasures privateers and buccaneers would seek.
Spanish charts and medicine
500
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