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The Hanseatic League: Medieval Europe's Trade Empire
We explore the Hanseatic League, a medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe that dominated Baltic trade for centuries. Unlike the Silk Road or Indian Ocean networks covered in previous episodes, this was a corporate entity governed by legal statutes rather than imperial decree. We examine how Lübeck became the capital of this network, the role of the Kontor trading posts in Novgorod, Bruges, London, and Bergen, and the specific types of ships like the cog that made their dominance possible. The episode details the…
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