What caused the First Barbary War?

The cause of the war was pirates from the Barbary States that was making fun of American merchant ships and holding the crews at ransom, ordering the Uunited States pay tribute to the Barbary rulers.

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beowulf is considered an epic poem because it describes the actions of a great warrior.

beowulf is taken into account an epos. in this poem, the main character may be a hero who travels nice distances to prove his strength at not possible odds against supernatural demons and beasts. in the poem, beowulf was a young warrior and he leaves his country to hrothgar, as hrothgar was in a great trouble.