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The Fourth Crusade, launched in 1202 and partly inspired by Venetian jealousy of Byzantium’s trading power, became an excuse to plunder Constantinople itself.
For nearly 300 years, Islamic conquest in India was confined to this trading community in Sind, but in the tenth century, tribesmen from Turkistan, driven west by Chinese expansion, set up a state at Ghazni and began raids across the border to plunder Hindu temples.
This real-life Scots-born 17th-century brigand received the official blessing of the British governor of New York to plunder French, Spanish, and Dutch ships from the Caribbean to Madagascar, frequently hiding out on the Nova Scotia coast.
After centuries of devastation by war, fire, plunder, and sheer neglect, the meticulous restoration work by the Québec provincial government has been a major act of faith in the cultural legacy of New France, reinforcing the provincial motto “Je me souviens.”
Plunderstück, Lit. item of plunder: a Danish pastry