A summary of the hanseatic league
Date Submitted: 06/26/2002 08:18:03
Category: / History / European History
Length: 2 pages (641 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 2 pages (641 words)
Hanseatic League
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. The Hansa was founded in …
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…Middle Ages with the rise of the Poland. The Order became involved in a series of wars against Poland and Lithuania. In 1454 gentry and the burghers of western Prussia rose up against the Order in the "War of the Cities" or Thirteen Years War, at the end of which the order recognized the Polish crown rights over Prussia's western half (subsequently Royal Prussia) while retaining eastern Prussia under nominal Polish overlordship (Second Treaty of Thorn, 1466).
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