A description and history Pirates around the world

During the Renaissance, society considered pirates as dirty, heartless, and evil. Pirates deliberately tried to scare their enemies. They designed their ship's flags with evil images, including a skeleton stabbing a heart. Blackbeard, one of the most famous pirates, braided his hair to look like devil's horns and carried his cutlass in his mouth to make him look evil. In fact, pirates possessed qualities that society valued and pirates were similar to other people in …

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