The Hanseatic League was a trading network that operated where?
1 Answer
Aug 13, 2017
Northern Europe from the Baltic to England, Belgium and also as far as Novgorod and the Kievian Rus on the Northern European Rivers.
Explanation:
The Hanseatic League was a group cities that created a common trading defense and trading partnership. Starting in the German city of Lubeck the trading block functioned from the early 13th Century to the late 16th Century.
The word Hansa comes from the word for Guild. There were a number of Guilds and together they were a loose group that tried to create trading opportunities and fight pirates and other military threats. The cities that the guilds operated in tended to be more independent than other European cities.
