Situation
You and your fellow "pirate scholars" are creating wikis about the life and legacy of piracy. You can begin your research with excerpt in your textbook entitled, "Buccaneers Prowl the High Seas" and continue with a deeper level of research via all other resources available.
Product, Performance and Purpose
Your product will be a pirate wiki.
The challenge involves identifying and examining the role of pirates in history based on the following questions:
Identify and examine the role of pirates in history based on the following seven questions:
(consider making these headings in your wiki page)
- How did the restrictive commercial policy of the Spanish Empire promote piracy and privateering?
- Was there a code of honor among the pirates?
- What kinds of people may have endured the most suffering from piracy?
- To what extent did pirates have any respect for individual freedom?
- How romantic was the real world of pirates?
- What is the lasting legacy of and attitude towards piracy?
- Are there any examples of modern of piracy? Explain your answer.