Storiascopio · Era 8 of 12 · lower secondary year 1
The Hanseatic League and northern trade
about 1300 · Lübeck and the ports of the North Sea and the Baltic
In short
The Hanseatic League, or Hansa, was an alliance of merchant towns in northern Europe led by Lübeck. Dozens of German and Baltic towns belonged to it, and it had trading bases in London, Bruges, Bergen and Novgorod. Its ships, called cogs, carried salted fish, timber, furs, grain and wool. The towns helped each other to protect trade from pirates and to win privileges from kings.
Why it matters The Hansa shows how trade could unite towns from different countries with different languages.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Hanseatic League”
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