Handsome and Hanseatic

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 in the Danish Straits. But once the herring moved into the North Sea profits began to dry up. Some blaming a "little ice age" for the reason behind the fish moving. That added with the fact that silt came and ruined the League's southernmost port in Bruges, Belgium during the 1400's. After those two events the League declined, and by that time Nobility power was declining as well to make way for newer corporations. This article does a good job showing that for commerce and trade to happen we, or I should say humans need an unchanging Earth to pull it off. Think about how difficult it would be to trade if more violent weather occurred on Earth? The past 3000 years have been quite calm, in comparison to previous times. Mother nature has been kind to us with no super major volcanos or storms, doesn't mean it will always be that way though especially with everything happening recently.
-Noah
Sources: https://gizmodo.com/how-two-environmental-changes-took-down-the-most-powerf-1746093847

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  1. Brianna See-RockersDecember 11, 2017 at 5:39 PM

    I don't think mother nature has been kind to us, with all the things happening in our world currently. I do find it interesting they blamed it on the little ice age for the reason behind fish moving. Maybe it has something to deal with global warming? Just a thought.

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