Hanseatic
League
What is Hanseatic
League? Hanseatic league is a former economic and defensive confederation of
free towns in northern Germany and neighboring areas. IT established since the
13th century to 17th, it has combined many cities for trading;
the majority of the foreign cities confined the traders of hansa for exactly
trading areas and for their own trading posts. Hamburg and Lubeck are two
cities were joined with Hansa association and the trade between merchant
association of Hamburg and lubeck provided a model for the merchant association
of the other North German cities to join. About the expansion, the Hanseatic
League location was on the Baltic Sea and there had been very good access to
the trade routes. The Scandinavians had been the responsible for that trade and
routes for several years. Today the legacy of Hansa remembered in many
different names, for example the German airline Lufthansa, Hansa Rostock,
Netherlands, and Swanbank.
Work Cited
"Hanseatic League." Wikipedia.
Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Sept. 2014. Web. 24 Sept. 2014.
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