What was the Hanseatic League from the middle ages?

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also:
list five facts about the port in the hanseatic town.

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what profession in the way of living do you see happening during the middle ages?




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Answer 1

THE HANSEATIC LEAGUE

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The Hanseatic League was not so much a league of cities as it was a league of merchant associations within the cities of Northern Germany and the Baltic. Trade in the middle ages was a dangerous and risky business and the only way for merchants to protect themselves was by travelling together. This banding together of merchants on the road led to their alliances at home as well. In the case of the Hanseatic league the impetus for its formation was trade along the Kiel "salt road" which did not run between Kiel and Luebeck, but between Hamburg and Lubeck but was named after the town where the salt was mined.


The Hansa was founded in the twelfth century by an alliance between the northern towns of Hamburg and Luebeck which lay on opposite sides of the base of the Danish peninsula. Luebeck fishing boats had easy access to the herring spawning grounds off the coast of Scania (The lower tip of Sweden, which at that time was Danish territory). A large portion of the diet of Christian Europe was made of fish since there were many fast days and the church forbade the eating of meat on Friday. Luebeck was in a position to capitalize on a large commodities market in herring, but one thing held Luebeck back. With no refrigeration or canning the shipping of a highly perishable commodity like fish was problematic. Hamburg, on the other side of the Jutland peninsula, had easy access to the salt produced in the salt mines at Kiel, and salting and drying of meat and fish made transport and distribution possible. It was in the interest, then, for the merchants of these two towns to open trade along the "salt" road.

The trade between the merchant associations of Hamburg and Luebeck provided a model for the merchant associations of the other North German cities to follow. In 1201 Cologne, already wealthy, joined the league. Danzig, whose port was a gateway to the eastern Baltic also joined as did most of the important Baltic port cities. By the height of the Hansa's power merchants from over sixty cities had joined the association. While each city had its own merchant association the alliance formed a loose Diet, or parliament, to govern inter-city trade and common policies. In most respects the policy of the merchants was protectionist and aimed at producing a German monopoly in the markets they supplied.


The Hanseatic Diet met only infrequently and was filled with divisive politics based on differences in regional priorities. It was more frequent that the regional assemblies, known as "thirds", met. There was a Rhennish third based on the Rhine trade, a Wendish third based on Baltic shipping out of Luebeck, and a Prussian third based on the trade of grain from the lands of the Teutonic Order. The predominant town in all dealings was Luebeck, which held a central position at the Baltic side of the Danish Sound. Other member cities often complained that

Answer 2

Hanseatic League Facts

Answer 3

It was an economic alliance between north German cities.

Answer 4

Its about Germany first of all. There are many many sites I have brough you some of them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~baronfum/hansa.html
http://history-world.org/Rise%20Of%20The%20Hanseatic%20League.htm
http://www.alexwaterhousehayward.com/blog/2007/05/rosa-hansa-alexandra-elizabeth.html
http://www.kiac-usa.com/Bremerhaven.html
http://wiki.ops4j.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=hansa:hansa

Answer 5

And the same question comes up again