Piracy is a robbery committed at sea or on the shore. The earliest documented instances of piracy are in the Mediterranean seas in 13th century BC. By the 1st century BC, there were pirates along the Anatolian coasts threatening the commerce of the Roman Empire.

On a voyage, Julius Caesar was kidnapped and held for ransom by pirates. The most famous pirate utopia is of Captain Mission and his crew who formed a free colony called libertatia in Madagascar in the late 17th century. The most colorful were the Caribbean pirates, namely, Henry Morgan and “blackbeard” or Edward Teach.

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