• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    Barbary Pirates - aligned with the various Muslim occupiers of southern Europe - were harassing and enslaving English sailors as early as the 1500s. Raids through the Iberian peninsula were happening as far back as the 710s.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Huh, didn't know that, that would have been cooler than him fighting as a cavelryman in the middle east.