The Hanseatic League

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1. What year did the city of Lübeck, the German port on the Baltic Sea, achieve city status? 1224 1108 1143 1191

2. A major cause for the Hanseatic League's development and expansion was the lack of a government administration to supply security for trade. True False

3. Which of the following towns was not an official "Hanseatic" town? (This is not to say that it wasn't a trading settlement at times). Visby Riga Stockholm Helsinki

4. In 1266 and 1267 the merchants of Hamburg and Lübeck obtained from Henry V the right to establish their own "stapleyards" (often nicknamed "steelyards" in England) or trading centres in Blackpool and Folkestone, England. True False

5. Infuriated by this pirates bold looting of their vessels, in 1402, Hanseatic merchants put together a small armada to capture this man, what was his name? Björn Dehaan Johannes Krutzfeldt Klaus Störtebeker Johann Wittenborg

6. Which of the following cities was NOT a major Hanseatic trading outpost? London Amsterdam Bergen Bruges

7. A diet was held in Lübeck after 1260 every 3rd year to settle disputes? True False

8. In the late Middle Ages the Hanseatic League was arranged in four primary districts and the four city centers were: Lübeck, Cologne, Königsberg and Rostock Lübeck, Cologne, Bremen and Riga Lübeck, Cologne, Brunswick and Danzig Lübeck, Hamburg, Novgorod and Danzig

9. Which of the following is NOT a reason for the eventual demise of the Hanseatic League? Political changes in Germany made princes stronger and cities weaker The discoveries of Columbus and Vasco da Gama diverted the route of trade The Dutch, after a tough clash, secured much of the Baltic and North Sea trade After “The Thirty Years War,” many of the Protestant traders lacked the money to keep their ships seaworthy

10. The Hanseatic League met officially for the last time in which year? 1671 1668 1669 1654