The Hanseatic Countries

Finish trade was organized in such a manner that it engaged many of the Finish peasants who played a very central role in building the economy of the coastland between Viipuri and the Gulf of Bothnia. Among the products which were traded between Finland and the Hanse included meat, butter, fish, livestock, domestic artifacts, cloth, firewood, and timber (Simms, & Clarke, 2015). Finland had several trade towns some of which were located in the coastlines. These towns served as main entry points for imported goods and exporters of Finnish products. The trade between the German merchants and the peasant traders in Finland was considered as a lively interaction that did not necessarily follow the official trade regulations in the Hanseatic League. -Hamad Sources:  Simms, A. & Clarke, H. (2015). Lords and towns in medieval Europe: the European historic towns atlas project . London: Routledge.

The Hanseatic League was initially started in the mid-twelfth century by loose business communities of German merchants who through their pursuit to increase their scope of trade centers created an international trade in the surrounding region (McKenna, 2014). The Dominicans are believed to have followed the German merchant during their trade in the Baltic Sea. It is also believed that they possibly reached in Finland in 1249 before the German merchants. This marked the start of the relationship between Finland and the Hanse. - Hamad Sources: McKenna, A. (2014). Denmark, Finland, and Sweden . Chicago: Britannica Educational Publishing.

Hello everyone another post, this time I thought I would like to expand the discussion on the last post. Which was about how the Hanseatic League would eventually dissolve in the 1400s. This time I found an article talking about the issue with herring fishing since Britain just recently left the EU. I quote 2 sentences from my last post, "During the 1300s the League mostly made its money from herring fishing in the Danish Straits. But once the herring moved into the North Sea profits began to dry up." The fish are still in the North Sea today and the issue now is that since the North Sea is along the UK's entire eastern shoreline, and is mostly British waters. Britain believes they should still control most of the fishing there, but the fish are used to feed a majority of other European countries. There is even a formula that the EU came up with to share the herring, mostly over fishing patterns. The EU doesn't expect Britain to completely turns its back on all herrin...

Hello another blog post, this time on the information of a blog post. One which I think is very interesting because it talks about what caused the Hanseatic League to collapse back in the 1400s. The League's collapse wasn't as quickly one would think. Also some people have started thinking that it was an environmental shift that caused the League's demise. As Leuart and I have explained in other posts, the League is made up of northern European cities that by themselves didn't have enough power to compete with larger territories, so they grouped up against them sometimes against their own countries. The league wasn't a country or a military force which helped them out in the long run because they weren't so clearly defined. But there was one truth, that no one wanted to cross the League. Due to the part that the amount of commerce that the League flowed was enough to hurt anyone not involved. During the 1300s the League mostly made its money from herring fishing...

Hello again, to be honest it is quite difficult to find news about the Hanseatic League. Since for the most part it hasn't been around since the 14 hundreds, and the New Hanseatic League hasn't really done all that much. Anyways, today I will discuss something that I found interesting on the Wikipedia page. The more recent return of the League was in 1980 which we have mentioned before. But in 1980 former Hanseatic members established a "New Hanse"(meaning New Guild) in Zwolle, a city in northeastern Netherlands. The new guild is open to any former members of the League and any cities that once hosted a Hanseatic "kontor"(meaning trading post). A fair amount of members, 12 to be exact came from Russia. The most notable being Novgorod, which was a major partner to the original League in the middle ages. It is truly interesting to see how things ran in the late middle ages. It made sense to have city trading because back then things weren't nearly has refi...

Today we will be talking about the effect that Brexit has on the Hanseatic League. Many of the medium to smaller countries are starting to realize that they need to make their voices heard in response to the recent departure. There are arguments for the UK both leaving and staying, but when involved in the EU the UK was more liberal in their approach, and pushed for more trade between countries, and those trying to liberalize trade in the EU will find it harder without them. Thus the Hanseatic League and others might have a more difficult time trading. While the departure of the UK will hurt the EU, due to the leader role that the country held. The remaining EU countries do have similar economic goals, including dynamic competition on a single market, and the need for national budgetary responsibility within the EU. With such a major power in the EU leaving it will be interesting to see how it all plays out. -Noah Sources: https://www.ft.com/content/83e0427c-c399-11e7-a1d2-6786f3...