The Hanseatic League
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The Hanseatic League
A trading alliance
The Hanseatic League
• Economic alliance
• Trading – anything from gold to stockfish
• Late Middle Ages• The coast
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Hanseatic trading routes and expansion
Beginning• Lübeck and Hamburg
• Later Scandinavia, Russia and Western Europe
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• Trading posts in every city = Kontors
• No closely-managed organisation
• Meetings in Lübeck
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• 170 cities
• Main trading posts: London, Bruges, Bergen and Novgorod
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Hanseatic league
• What was the internal structure like? • No leader• All members had the same rights• Didn`t collect taxes among the members • The league wasn`t a community • It was an alliance of common interests • If they`re problems they`re normally met in
Luebeck
How did the members protect each other?
• If there was a threat the cities come togehter for a short time to agree common policies
• members of the league who did not obey the hanseatic rules were expelled from the league.
The End16th century
• Weak position
• Swedish Empire
• Heinrich Südermann
• Hanse-cities• http://t2.gstatic.com/
Sources• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League• http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKcawb9J5tHOvz
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