Piracy Quiz: questions and answers
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1. What is piracy associated with?
Ship robbery
2. What are the larger vessels that are used by the pirates known as?
Mother ships
3. What is the Latin word for piraes?
Purateivitia
4. Who was captured and enslaved by the Irish pirates?
Saint Patrick
5. Who were the actual pirates In medieval Europe?
Vikings
6. Novgorodian pirates were known as:
Ushkuiniks
7. When were Novgorodian pirates looting cities on the Volga river?
14th century
8. Who were the main victims of Maniot pirates?
Ottomans
9. Who was the most popular pirate in the Persian Gulf?
Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalahimah
10. What did women often do to become a pirate?
Acting as a man