Pedagogical proposal to support the teaching of history with audiovisual content including video game advertising: the example of Assassin`s Creed IV: Black flag and privateer Amaro Pargo

Abstract

Based on the analysis of a documentary included in the advertising campaign to promote the game Assassin`s Creed IV: Black Flag (2013), this study proposes to take, as a methodological resource, view and analyze various audiovisual resources in order to improve teaching specific aspects of the subjects of History in different education levels. Although such games affect their access to age 18, certain content could be shown to students with slightly lower ages. We selected as an example a documentary on the life of Spanish privateer born in Tenerife, Amaro Pargo, a character who lived during the golden age of piracy (18th Century) which has been produced by the Spanish delegation of the multinational Ubisoft. The documentary recreates a scientific and archaeological study that reveals the true tomb of Pargo, under the flagstones of the Church of Santo Domingo (La Laguna), and how the bones of the privateer were exhumed.