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The Hanseatic League: Medieval Europe's Trade Empire
While the Silk Road and Indian Ocean networks dominated ancient and medieval global trade, a different kind of empire rose in Northern Europe. This episode explores the Hanseatic League, a confederation of merchant guilds and market towns that controlled commerce across the Baltic and North Seas from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. We follow the journey of Lübeck as it became the 'Queen of the Hanse,' and examine how merchants like those from the Kontor in Novgorod navigated complex diplomatic waters with Russian princes. The narrative details the economic machinery…
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