Pirate History

Before starting to create anything in Maya or Unity I wanted to do some research into piracy and the history of pirates, looking at when they were around and also what the did that impacted that time period so well. I wanted to be able to learn about the history of pirates to see how they would have acted and I also wanted to narrow this down specifically to pirates around the Caribbean as this is where I have decided to set my game level.

Piracy has said to have existed for as long as there have been ships on the sea and the earliest documentations of piracy have been as early as the 14th century BC. Although there have been many different pirates and accounts of piracy in the different areas of the world the ones I want to concentrate on are the pirate that resided in the Caribbean. These pirates where documented to be around in the early 1500s but the period during which pirates were most successful was from 1700 to the 1730s. After the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, many pirates starting coming to the Caribbean and attempted to set up farms and started hunting but this eventually failed; and piracy began. At the time there was a lot of European powers of the time, especially in Britain, and at the time Spain controlled most of the Caribbean. After this piracy declined until the beginning of the 1800s but they were not as successful or ferocious as the original pirates in the 1700s but this era of pirates did not last long as by the 1830s piracy had died out again to make way for the slave trade.

I then wanted to have a quite look into the history of the Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, and it is a strange piece of sea located in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean, just above the Caribbean islands. What makes this part of the sea so interesting is due to the amount of accidents involving aircraft's and ships disappearing without explanation. There have been a lot of different speculation as to the cause of the different disappearances but this is what interests me so much about it as anything could be happening in this space and anything could have happened.