
Narrower definitions of the Golden Age sometimes exclude the first or second periods, but most include at least some portion of the third.

The buccaneering period (approximately 1650 to 1680), characterized by Anglo-French seamen based in Jamaica and Tortuga attacking Spanish colonies, and shipping in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.Histories of piracy often subdivide the Golden Age of Piracy into three periods: The Golden Age of Piracy is a common designation for the period between the 1650s and the 1730s, when maritime piracy was a significant factor in the histories of the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
