1. The Hanseatic League A trading alliance
The Hanseatic League was an alliance of cities back in the later Middle Ages. They traded among each others, everything from gold to stockfish, and were an economic alliance that protected and looked out for each others. The League had it’s prime time in 13th to 17th centuries and the cities involved mostly lies among the coast of the countries along the Baltic and the North Sea. The trading back at the time of the Hanseatic League was dangerous, and therefore they traveled together to be safer and less likely to be raided by pirates. They also had roles and special armies to protect their members.
Here you can see a map of the main areas that was in the League, and as you can see; they’re all cities or areas along a river or the sea and Germany was one of the countries with the most cities in the League and was also an important country in the League.

2. The Hanseatic League Economic alliance
Trading – anything from gold to stockfish
Late Middle Ages
The coast
The Hanseatic League was an alliance of cities back in the later Middle Ages. They traded among each others, everything from gold to stockfish, and were an economic alliance that protected and looked out for each others. The League had it’s prime time in 13th to 17th centuries and the cities involved mostly lies among the coast of the countries along the Baltic and the North Sea. The trading back at the time of the Hanseatic League was dangerous, and therefore they traveled together to be safer and less likely to be raided by pirates and that’s one of the reason that the League existed. They also had roles and special armies to protect their members from angry kings, pirates and each others.
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3. Map
Here you can see a map of the main areas that was in the League, and as you can see; they’re all cities or areas along a river or the sea and Germany was one of the countries with the most cities in the League. It was also an important country in the League and Lübeck, a German town, was the main city of the League.
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4. Hanseatic trading routes and expansion

5. Beginning Lübeck and Hamburg
Later Scandinavia, Russia and Western Europe

6. Trading posts in every city = Kontors
No closely-managed organisation
Meetings in Lübeck

7. 170 cities
Main trading posts:
London, Bruges, Bergen and Novgorod

8. Hanseatic league What was the internal structure like? No leader
All members had the same rights
Didn`t collect taxes among the members
The league wasn`t a community
It was an alliance of common interests
If they`re problems they`re normally met in Luebeck

9. How did the members protect each other?
If there was a threat the cities come togehter for a short time to agree common policies
members of the league who did not obey the hanseatic rules were expelled from the league.

10. The End 16th century Weak position Swedish Empire Heinrich Südermann
Hanse-cities
At the start of the 16th century the Hansa found themselves in a weaker position than they have ever been. They had lost much of their power due to the rising Swedish Empire. Some countries left the community and Denmark regained control of their own market. They recruited Heinrich Südermann to reunite the countries again, he managed to keep the league going for nearly 10 years, but then they closed it down for good.
Even today, several cities maintain the way of the Hanseatics. And some cities like Hamburg and Bremen even call themselves for Hanse cities today.

11. Sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League