Marked Lübeck

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Hanseatic League

Merchant towns around the Baltic and North Sea, led by Lübeck, banded together to protect their trade in fish, grain, timber, furs and cloth. They had offices from London to Novgorod.

Place
Lübeck · Bergen · Novgorod · The Steelyard, LondonEurope
Laid out as
A routeA road, a sea lane or a trade network, followed stop by stop.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. Lübeck
  2. Bergen
  3. Novgorod
  4. The Steelyard, London
  1. ILübeck
  2. IIThe cog
  3. IIIThe Steelyard in London
  4. IVNovgorod and furs
  5. VHerring and salt
  6. VIPirates and wars

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Klaus Störtebeker

Objects

  • The Bremen cog
  • Bryggen in Bergen

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1356 to 1669. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?