Could we say new world explorers and pirates?

    The discovery of the new world was full of surprises for everyone. It starts with the people who are native to the new world and the explorers who decided to take it once they "found" the land. Many of our most famous explorers traveled west to claim a land that was not theirs. Not only did explorers take the land, but they also abused, raped, and stole whatever they wanted from the natives with no consequences. Later on piracy became a huge problem. But now the main difference between the explorers and the pirates are that the pirates were dirty and stole from the explorers. This made piracy a terrible crime that needed to be stopped. It did not mater that pirates basically did the same thing that the explorers did to the natives. Both parties are wrong for what they did, I just wanted to point out how they both did the same but with different representation.