According to Robert Davis, from the 16th to 19th century, pirates captured 1 million to 1.25 million Europeans as slaves. …The Barbary Corsairs often made raids, called Razzias, on European coastal towns to capture Christian slaves to sell at slave markets in places such as Algeria and Morocco. In the West, the name commonly evokes the Barbary pirates and slave traders based on that coast, who attacked ships and coastal settlements in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic and captured and traded slaves from Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.
The name is derived from the Berber people of north Africa. The Barbary Coast, or Barbary, was the term used by Europeans from the 16th until the 19th century to refer to the middle and western coastal regions of North Africa-what is now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. Read on for the first 20 years of the rise of the Barbary States! A short history of the Barbary States Sure enough, it has been amusing, but also really hard. …And I also thought it would be quite funny if I could pull it off. Why this rag-tag bunch of North African pirates? For two reasons: So many provinces, so many troops to build, so much money! So instead of going easy, and to provide an interesting AAR, I unlocked the minor nations and decided to play the Barbary States. Empire: Total War is fun, but playing as England, Prussia, France or Spain is a bit easy really.
0 kommentar(er)
