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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Map

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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

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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/

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