Learn About the Real Golden Age of Pirates in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

<p><iframe width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;8Er9WuISTps" frameborder&equals;"0" allowfullscreen><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a new <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed IV&colon; Black Flag<&sol;em> video released by Ubisoft&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re given a brief history lesson on how the Golden Age of Pirates began&period; It didn&&num;8217&semi;t begin with a mass of fighting and seemingly random act of violence&comma; but instead began when Spain&comma; Great Britain and France agreed to a number a treaties that resulted in a much welcome time of peace&period; Not too long afterwards&comma; however&comma; and due to the lack of opportunities afforded by a distant ruler&comma; many sailors turned their futures into a life of piracy&semi; a life that came with new ideals and a new kind of freedom&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many great pirates lived during these times&comma; such as Calico Jack&comma; Benjamin Hornigold&comma; Charles Vane and even Blackbeard who&comma; along with names that all living people would come to fear&comma; brought their own brand of charisma&comma; as well as their own code&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Protagonist Edward Kenway will also rise to the status of the aforementioned pirates in <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed IV<&sol;em>&comma; which Ubisoft claims will contain the real&comma; unvarnished stories of the Golden Age of Pirates&period; On the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;assassinscreed&period;tumblr&period;com&sol;">game&&num;8217&semi;s Tumblr page<&sol;a> lies even more information regarding the history of that time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed IV&colon; Black Flag<&sol;em> has a release date of October 29th&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;