When historian John Fiske came up with the name "The Golden Age of Piracy" in 1897, he defined it as long lasting 70 several years, spanning the period involving 1650 and 1720. Between 1909 and the 1990s, the craze for defining the age was just one in the direction of narrowing its scope, with some defining it as lasing only 10 yrs or even significantly less.