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Privateering
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100
Privately owned vessels, commissioned by the state, with the goal of raiding foreign vessels
What is a privateer?
100
The organization tasked with regulating privateers in Britain
What is the High Court of Admiralty?
100
A 17th century mercenary, who prefers to fight on land as opposed to the sea.
What is a buccaneer?
100
Governments placed these on goods that were acquired through corsairing
What are taxes?
100
Corsairing became a way of life for some in this region.
What is the Mediterranean?
200
The High Court of Admiralty issued these to commission privateers
What is a letter of marque/reprisal?
200
This is what separates a pirate from privateer
What are sanctions by the state?
200
The prefered weapon of a buccaneer, was a more advanced and reliable form of the matchlock musket.
What is a flintlock musket?
200
Nadal says corsairing isn’t a “normal” form of commerce, instead calling it this.
What is “forced?”
200
Corsairs were viewed as these by their home nations.
What are heroes?
300
These are the two major types of privateering
What are commissioned merchantmen, private man-of-arms?
300
These were a set of rules given by the High Court
What is a code of conduct?
300
This was widely practiced to ensure order and discipline aboard voyages.
What are beatings/torture ie. (whipping, sweating, marooning, keelhauling)
300
Corsairing was common during this time period.
What is the sixteenth century through the eighteenth century?
300
Corsairs avoided these by selling their looted goods in ports other than their home port.
What are duties or taxes?
400
This was the only organization that could police and regulate privateers
What is the Royal Navy?
400
Privateering is rooted from this Medieval practice
What are reprisals?
400
This battle tactic helped buccaneers gain an edge against the less skilled spanish militia
What is guerilla warfare? (surprise attacks/ or hit and run are also acceptable)
400
This was a cause of corsairing, according to Nadal.
What is war/crisis, economic recession, ideologies/religious beliefs
400
This major center of trade suffered from corsairing.
What is Venice?
500
This contributed to the inefficiency of the High Court system
What is political pressure, a monopoly of the proctors?
500
This is the driving force behind how the “deterrence” of privateers works
What are wages?
500
This succession of events ended the age of the buccaneer.
What are the end of the Long Wars, and/or the foundation of the British Empire in the caribbean.
500
This was the third stage of the corsairing process.
What is that the captain, a notary, and two qualified witnesses had to sign a document stating that corsairing regulations would be followed?
500
Nadal states that corsairing is a “this” type of commerce, because it only worked under certain political and economic circumstances.
What is an “occasional” method of commerce?