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History teaches that where commerce and industry flourish, art also secures its triumphs.Continuing The Hanseatic League's Story,our selection

It was greater, for example, than that of the maritime towns of Germany for the period immediately preceding the era of steam navigation, i.e., about

This station, created at a late period of Hanseatic expansion, bears testimony to the colonial genius of the German merchants of the league and

The Hansa ships were usually round-bellied, high-boarded craft with one mast, and flew the pennant of their home port.Continuing The Hanseatic

The methods of transportation and intercourse at that time were very different from those of today.Continuing The Hanseatic League's Story,our

Of the two great avenues of trade, that indicated by the termini Bruges and Novgorod is first deserving of mention.Continuing The Hanseatic League's

Another passage at arms was required. The ensuing conflict was the greatest and most glorious ever fought, not only by the Hansa, but by Germany, upon