2. BANDITS AND CORSAIRS
Banditry was a privately form of delinquency.
Corsairs had the state support to looted their enemies.
3. THE ATTACKS AND THE DEFENSES
In XVI and XVII century, the corsairs
attacked from Maghrib and the Ottoman empire.
The villages were pillaged and the
trade was interrupted.
The catalans organized their own cors and the galleys
production was multiplied.
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4. CLASSES OF BANDITS
Handsome or bullies: they were reckless and they seeked adventure and danger. They were
usually public murderers.
Smugglers: They abstained from killing because they were forced by necessity.
Famous Thieves: they robbed rich people
Serrallonga (Joan Sala) was a
popular bandit in Catalonia. He
was arrested and executed in
1634.
5. THE CAUSE OF THE BANDITRY
This was due because the bubonic plague at 1650, when the population decreased. When it
was finished, the population and the economy increased again.
Some people were bandits because they had became poor.
6. WHERE IS THE DANGER?
After the groups were formed, the bandits were the danger in land and the corsairs and the
pirates in the sea. Both made the same: pillaged and plundered.
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