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Pirate Queen Zheng Yi Sao | The Worlds Greatest Pirate
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As a teenager, she worked on floating brothels. By her 30s, she commanded a pirate fleet larger than the Spanish Armada and forced three national governments to negotiate on her terms. This is the true story of Zheng Yi Sao, also known as Ching Shih, the most successful pirate in history, male or female. What you'll learn in this episode: Who Zheng Yi Sao (Ching Shih) was and how she rose from poverty to power How Qing Dynasty floating brothels and the tanka people shaped her early life How a marriage alliance turned...
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
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- 196 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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Who is the greatest pirate of all time? Blackbeard, the Barbosa brothers, how about Captain Morgan? If we go by pop culture standards, an argument could be made for any of them.
But my delicious donut, None of these unwashed men could come close to the greatness of the real Pirate Queen of the Sea. Welcome, welcome, welcome, friend. I'm TK, your tour guide to the past and you are listening to For the Love of History, the podcast where we talk about world history, women's history,
and weird history. Are you ready, beloved, to have your timbers shivered? Are you ready to hoist the sails and swab the poop deck because today we're talking pirate and not just any pirate the world's greatest pirate the single most successful pirate in history a pirate of the people for the people
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