Deutsche Hansa

Deutsche Hansa

http://www.zdf.de/terra-x/die-deutsche-hanse-eine-heimliche-supermacht-zweiteiler-5373994.html 09/15/14
`If you turn the clock back 700 years ago in much of Germany, you notice globalization in a time no one what globalization was. It wasn't that the cities were link together through trade. It was the merchants; it was the league of merchant associations that controlled the trade within Northern Germany and the Baltic. Being a merchant was a dangerous job, so order to survive they need to stick together.
 Each part of the Deutsche Hansa is significant here are a few. In Norway (Bergen), dry cod was the major export. In Sweden (Stockholm), iron was the major export. In Northern Germany they produced wool, armor production, and even silks. The reason why the Deutsche Hansa exceeded because they agree in world of free trade in the late middle ages to the early part of the renaissance period. 
Now free trade is when a city can transport and even receive a good at no tax. This had many benefits, for all members of the Deutsche Hansa because they got the good that they needed. Also the cities got it at the without paying for any fees or tax. Deutsche was a economical move that operated on their on set of rules.