Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Elizabethan Society and Exploration.
State-sponsored piracy where the government authorised privately owned ships to attack and plunder enemy vessels.
privateering appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Early Elizabethan England, especially Elizabethan Society and Exploration and Colonisation of Virginia.
Early Elizabethan England
Elizabethan Society and Exploration • Colonisation of Virginia
Early Elizabethan England
Elizabethan Society and Exploration • Exploration
Early Elizabethan England
Challenges at Home and Abroad • War with Spain
Early Elizabethan England
Challenges at Home and Abroad • Relations with Spain
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