Family Security Matters » Publications » Gulliver and the Pirates: "It’s disheartening that piracy is still with us. When human beings first went to sea to fish and later to trade (5,000 years ago), sea-goers moonlighted as pirates, which paid them better than their primary work. For millennia, captured pirates were hanged, but that was the cost of doing business. Pirates had a free hand until Rome became a power.
The Romans made their Mediterranean fishing and trading routes safe by horrifically punishing pirates. But after Rome fell, travelers and merchants were once more prey to pirates who seized cargos, enslaved crews, and held wealthy victims hostage for ransom."
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