The Hanseatic League: Explained (Short Animated History Documentary)

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The Hanseatic League was a consortium of trading towns which all-but monopolised trade in the north and baltic seas between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. But how did they manage to achieve this and what led to their decline? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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@TheMrFabian1 4 месяца назад

Hamburg still officially calls itself the "Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg". It's still a big part of their folklore there.

@Yora21 4 месяца назад

It's like every second company in Schleswig-Holstein is named "Hansa-something".

@Janoip 4 месяца назад

+Bremen, Lübeck+++ The relics of the Hanseatic League Despite the demise of the Hanseatic League, many traces of this period remain to this day. Many cities like to remember the time of the Hanseatic League. Be it the addition "Hanseatic City" to the city name, the "H" in the license plate, clubs such as "Hansa Rostock" or street names - the relics of the Hanseatic era are still clearly visible, especially in the historic Hanseatic cities.

@thestarjon 4 месяца назад

This also extends to the Oberlandesgericht (higher state court) of Hamburg being called "Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht" (hanseatic higher state court). The same is true for Bremen ("Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht in Bremen"). Most other states rather boringly call theirs the "Oberlandesgericht für [insert state]".

@dariusgunter5344 4 месяца назад

There are a lot of cities which pride themselves on the Hanseatic history, none more than the former center and capital lübeck, as a former resident of that city and it's surrounding its really so engrained in the city and I can advise anyone visiting it to visit the Hansemuseum.

@PassivesAbseits 4 месяца назад

@@Janoip There has been a huge "Hanse-Renaissance" post Re-Unification. The obvious reason is, that many of the "former Hanseatic League" Cities rejoined and searched for a "new identity". But post 2007 even "Western Cities" like Lüneburg remembered their heritage. I honestly wonder, how much the "Stoertebeker Festivities" contributed to this hype. This is a pretty big theatrical presentation, living on a "natural stage", and the story, since it focuses on Stoertebeker, always includes the Hanse... But it has been 20 years, since I actually watched the play. And that the GDR named their artificiallly created Rostock football club after a free trade organisation, when they were all against free trade, is kind of ironic...

@namenamename390 4 месяца назад

Side note, the Hanseatic Leauge lives on in name. Many cities in Germany, most notably Hamburg, still proudly carry "Hansestadt" (Hanseatic city) in their name.

@crayonviking 4 месяца назад

Same with multiple towns in the Netherlands

@Yora21 4 месяца назад

German car license plates always start with the code for the district were they were registered. Hamburg, Lübeck, Bremen, and Rostock are HH, HL, HB, and HR.

@Janoip 4 месяца назад

The relics of the Hanseatic League Despite the demise of the Hanseatic League, many traces of this period remain to this day. Many cities like to remember the time of the Hanseatic League. Be it the addition "Hanseatic City" to the city name, the "H" in the license plate, clubs such as "Hansa Rostock" or street names - the relics of the Hanseatic era are still clearly visible, especially in the historic Hanseatic cities.

@zartesnilpferd6778 4 месяца назад

@@Yora21 Rostock is "HRO", but thanks for bringing this up. Also not every "Hanseatic City" in name has the "H" in their license plate (e. g. Hansestadt Salzwedel is "SAW").

@musiqtee 4 месяца назад

Even Bergen 🇳🇴 calls itself ’Hansabyen’ at times, although it actually wasn’t one. There was however a strong presence of an office in co-op with Brügge, London and Novgorod. Norway itself got pretty ‘danish’, and not much of a sovereign state after a certain earlier presence as vikings (let’s say trade with some violence, like the Hansa…?). Those who today use the ‘Hansabyen’ moniker, seem to be rather… trade-oriented too. Former conservative PM Solberg is herself Bergenser (from Bergen)… 🤓

@Theology.101 4 месяца назад

You can tell its german because its name is Hans

@Leonbobway 4 месяца назад

a-Ahah!!

@TransKidsMafia 4 месяца назад

You can tell that society will be better once all the kids transition.

@Edits-with-Niko 4 месяца назад

Good one 💀👍

@RipRLeeErmey 4 месяца назад

@@TransKidsMafia Huuuuhhhhh bot spotted?????

@lennartmook9182 4 месяца назад

Funny joke but the name would ne Hanz so no

@cv990a4 4 месяца назад

Fun fact - "Hansa" basically means "group" or "league". So, Hanseatic League essentially means "Leagish League" or "Groupish Group" The word survives in Lufthansa, which you can see as meaning Air League or Air Group or perhaps, at a stretch, United Air.

@TigerofRobare 4 месяца назад

Huh. I thought a "Hanse" was a kind of warehouse.

@jonatanwestholm 4 месяца назад

Leagy McLeagueface

@AColonelPanic 4 месяца назад

@@TigerofRobare Hanse is also a special building for Germany in Civ 5 😛

@MH-hu5pi 4 месяца назад

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@EEEEEEEE 4 месяца назад

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@Stoneworks 4 месяца назад

I was just wondering how I could dominate the trade of the northern seas and inland rivers. Thank you for the tips and tricks!!

@TransKidsMafia 4 месяца назад

you can dominate the trade by forming an army of trans kids.

@GwainSagaFanChannel 4 месяца назад

@@TransKidsMafia I did not know there are now bots trying to spread propaganda to make people believe that trans people want to make everyone trans I swear these transphobes really are willing to do anything to make trans people look bad

@GwainSagaFanChannel 4 месяца назад

@@TransKidsMafia transphobe bot spotted

@SamFromItalia 4 месяца назад

Same I was annoyed by all of these "Independent nations" so I wanted to get some tips on "trade"

@NP3GA 4 месяца назад

@@GwainSagaFanChannel tf was he on about?

@hans-rudi-der-letzte 4 месяца назад

There is actually a "New Hansa" nowadays with cities like Hamburg, Lübeck, Bremen, Rostock, Gdansk, Riga and Tallinn closely working together. There are even the "Hanseatic Days of New Time" a big festival that is every year in another Hanseatic town. :)

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@TransKidsMafia 4 месяца назад

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@GwainSagaFanChannel 4 месяца назад

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@albevanhanoy 4 месяца назад

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@kingjoe3rd 4 месяца назад

Europeans think they are building towards a collective Europe, but what they are actually building towards is a collective West that is dominated and lorded over by the United States government. Sound familiar?

@Finlandiaperkele 4 месяца назад

One of the most impactful things the League did was the standardization of city design. In any city the basic layout was similar, a central market square with town hall/rathaus and a church. This meant that no matter which city you went to, you always found what you were looking for. This would also spread to non-Hanseatic cities due to its popularity and easing of the trade. Also why Hanseatic League was so popular was the network of rathauses, which meant that if you got scammed or asked to pay too much for a product, you could file a complaint with your rathaus and the council would be in contact with the council of the rathaus in question and resolve the matter.

@Paul83121 4 месяца назад

An interesting side-effect of this is that German tourists tend to visit Hanse cities. They know that it's going to be a beautiful city with a certain design. In the last 15 years some Dutch cities have been using the Hanse name again to profile themselves for these tourists. My hometown of Harderwijk was always known for having been a fisherman's town, having had a corrupt university, and having been the gathering point from where criminals were sent off to serve in the colonial army. The history of having been a Hanse city was barely known. Nowadays, city namesigns all say "Hanzestad Harderwijk" and there's a specially designed Hanse flag you can see all around the old city centre. Quite an interesting marketing idea, and understandable given some of the ctiy's former reputation.

@_blank-_ 4 месяца назад

Sounds dubious.

@balabanasireti 4 месяца назад

@@_blank-_It doesn't but okay

@zimriel 4 месяца назад

@@Paul83121 my hometown is also known for being a fisherman's town with a corrupt university . . . . it's Boston

@RuiRuichi 4 месяца назад

Seems similar to how Spaniards founded cities in the Philippines. A central park where its surrounded by a church, townhall, govt bldgs, military/police buildings, market and other commerce bldgs.

@skudrinskis 4 месяца назад

A lot of this is taught in Latvian history classes and I always found Hanseatic league interesting

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@dariusgunter5344 4 месяца назад

Probably a Baltic thing, Riga was one of the most prominent cities too so maybe it's more the main reason?

@Held_im_Chaos 4 месяца назад

@@dariusgunter5344 that would make sense i'm from hamburg and it was very prevalent in school here as well

@kirjoittajajoni 4 месяца назад

Same in Finland, not that much but definetly to make it a known entity and big part of history

@ICaImI 4 месяца назад

I envy you. In germany they teach us NOTHING of it. Not even about the holy roman empire. 99% of our history classes have nothing to do with our country and if it has something to do with it it's literally: WW1 and WW2, we don't say it's your fault but you should feel bad nonetheless. And that was school 20 years ago...I don't want to know what they teach nowadays...

@northwestpassage6234 4 месяца назад

Fun fact the administration and trade language used by the Hansa was Saxon (called today Low Saxon or low German and is a separate but related language to German and Dutch) and due to the Hansa’s influence in the Baltic modern Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian vocabulary have somewhere over 20% Low Saxon loan words. Today it’s a dying language but revitalization attempts are slowly gaining popularity and a unified spelling system has been developed to bridge dialects from the Netherlands and Germany.

@sebe2255 2 месяца назад

It is a shame that the Saxon regional languages in the Netherlands is hardly spoken anymore.

@bxzidffbxzidff 7 дней назад

Sadly, almost all revitalization happening only after young people have stopped using a language is less revitalization than life support

@kalevader 4 месяца назад

Love this new “explained” style instead of just questions

@jBread28 4 месяца назад

Old style really

@EbonySaints 4 месяца назад

@@jBread28It's only old when the videos are ten minutes long. It's ancient when James Bissonett isn't mentioned.

@nickmacarius3012 4 месяца назад

The Hanseatic League only existed thanks to the approval and financial backing of the Holy Roman Emperor, James Bisonette.

@patrickhaeusler 4 месяца назад

The old Hanseatic League may no longer exist, but some of it's former members still officially call themselves "Hanseatic Cities", are often using Hanseatic symbolism like red and white flags and coats of arms, share a common dialect called Hanseatic Lower German (although it has it's regional differences) and have a special relationship with each other. This mostly applies to Hamburg, my home town of Bremen, and Lübeck, who all managed to keep their independence up to the Unification of Germany (borrowing the short period of French occupation during the Napoleonic Wars), and are, in case of Hamburg and Bremen, even nowadays self-governing city-states within Germany's federal system. After German Reunification, they were joined by several former East German cities at the Baltic coast such as Wismar, Rostock, Stralsund or Greifswald, and if you take a look at the buildings from the time of the Hanseatic League, it's wealth still becomes evident (in fact, Hamburg is still the wealthiest city and most important harbor in Germany).

@smalltime0 4 месяца назад

I think you meant barring and not borrowing. Its crazy that Bremen still has free city status, it should have lost it when they put up the Town Musicians of Bremen monument in the 50s.

@davidhouseman4328 4 месяца назад

I think this one needs at least a 10 minute history version.

@balabanasireti 4 месяца назад

Yeah, I don't like him only putting shorter videos out

@occam7382 4 месяца назад

@@balabanasireti, it's probably the only way he can keep a consistent upload schedule without overworking himself.

@MrGenericNickname 4 месяца назад

@@occam7382 if not mistaken, it also had sth to do with monetization / sponsorship tied to the length of the videos.

@robobertob 4 месяца назад

The BBC has a podcast called In Our Time that just put out an episode on the Hansa if you want to learn more about it. That's probably where he got the idea for this video lol

@jameslawrie3807 4 месяца назад

It's a six month history unit at university and that's not really considered 'in depth'

@genericyoutubeaccount579 4 месяца назад

The Hanseatic League was crucial to waging war on piracy (and Denmark whenever the Danes charged the Germans a toll for using the Danish Straits). The most famous pirate of the era was Klaus Stortebecker Klaus Störtebecker was brought to the Grasbrook in Hamburg where he and his 72 companions were beheaded on October 20, 1401. As his last wish, Störtebecker asked that all the men he could walk past after his head had fallen should be freed. That wish was granted, but when the headless pirate had passed 11 of his shipmates, one of the members of the city council tripped him up and in the end all of his men were killed, including those he had walked past.

@Yora21 4 месяца назад

Born in Hamburg, lived in Lübeck most of my life. All the major cities in northern Germany, and I think also northern Poland, still have red and white as their colors.

@Phi1981 4 месяца назад

born in HL; lived in HL, stayed in HL :)

@piotrkowalski544 4 месяца назад

As a Pole living in the "Recovered Territories" and interested in their multiculturalism, I can confirm that most Polish Hanseatic cities cultivate this tradition! Greetings to the Germans

@hurensohn7605 9 дней назад

Lübeck most beautiful city in the north :)

@zartesnilpferd6778 4 месяца назад

As someone originating from a very small Hanseatic city (Salzwedel) and now living in one of the most important members of the league (Rostock), I have to deeply thank you for covering this. :)

@TheWoollyFrog 4 месяца назад

Doesn't the football team in Rostock make reference to this League?

@zartesnilpferd6778 4 месяца назад

@@TheWoollyFrog Yes, they're called "Hansa Rostock" and currently play in the second division of the Bundesliga. ^^

@balabanasireti 4 месяца назад

No one asked for your history

@SNWWRNNG 4 месяца назад

@@balabanasireti I asked.

@lisette2060 Месяц назад

Long past glory, as much else in that desolate region!

@NelsonDiscovery 4 месяца назад

Awesome! There are far too few videos about the Hanseatic League.

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@BHDANNY03 4 месяца назад

Highly recommend the podcast “history of the Germans” especially the season on the league. For an American that knew absolutely nothing it was an amazing experience to listen.

@tobio.5968 4 месяца назад

Fun fact: Many former hanseatic cities still carry the name "Hansestadt" in their official name like the "Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg". They also put it on their licence plate abbreviations. Thus Hamburg despite being the biggest cities starting with an H does not have H on their plates but HH for Hansestadt Hamburg.

@lofilipeta 4 месяца назад

The Hanseatic League declined because James Bissonette stopped supporting them

@Kameeho 4 месяца назад

Funfact: My town of Bergen our beer brand is called Hansa. Also the Unesco world heritage site which is pretty much the core identity of our town is remnants of the Hanseatic league. The Hanseatic league is also partly responsible for our unique dialect and the fact that despite being in a area is geographically surrounded and populated by the second language of Norway (Nynorsk), Bergen is stuck with Bokmål like the eastern part and general majority of norway speaks.

@ansgarhugle2471 4 месяца назад

One thing that wasn‘t mentioned is language: Most of the Hanse spoke Low German dialects, which are collectivly classivied as their own language distinct from the High German dialects to their south. Because of the Hanse, Low German became a lingua franka of northern trade and had a big impact on the development of Scandinavian languages. However, after the decline of the Hanse, North Germany was conquered by Prussia, and Low German mostly died out. Ironiclly, North Germany thous speaks the „cleanest“ High German as it lacks local dialects. Recently though, there has been a revival movement for Low German dialects like Hamburgian.

@blacawi 4 месяца назад

I will note that while trade shifted away from the Hanseatic League that does not mean the Baltic Sea trade itself declined. During the 17th century the Dutch Republic (whose merchant fleet at the time outnumbered that of the rest of Europe combined) still made way more money from trading in the Baltic Sea compared to trading in the Dutch East Indies. This was mostly due to the sheer size of this trade. The travel to what is now Indonesia would take months if not years and was very risky for traders. Intercontinental trade did eventually increase more to outstrip the trade in Europe itself, but that was long after the decline of the Hanseatic League.

@5thMilitia 4 месяца назад

Yep, the competion with merchants from Holland is the hole in this story

@arjenh7214 4 месяца назад

The moedernegotie!

@svart7716 4 месяца назад

Dutch republic was a wonderful monster. A very little country with very little population sucked the blood of the world very successfully..

@stooge_mobile 4 месяца назад

I know it does sound like I'm advertising here, but you guys might wanna check out The history of the Germans podcast for this topic. He goes through competition with the English adventurer merchants, Flanders, then the Dutch. Pretty interesting story.

@embreis2257 4 месяца назад

the same principle at work can be seen today. trade between EU neighbours is still much more important and worth more than their trade with countries outside of the EU, let lone outside Europe. the _globalised world trade_ didn't surplant the trade between neighbours. a lesson all those rabid 'Brexit' lovers had to learn over the last couple of years

@stooge_mobile 4 месяца назад

A big shout out to The History of the Germans podcast for this one! Dirk explains what the Hansa is, and what they did, in a hell of a lot of detail. Real eye-opener.

@JanwillemJ 4 месяца назад

Nice vid, I was born and raised in the Dutch ‘Hanzestad’ Zutphen. They have a cultural podium called the Hanzehof and a sporthal called the Hanzehal…and many more things called Hanze-something…so yeah, the Hansaetic League lives on 🤗

@r.a.acosta6528 4 месяца назад

I didn't even know this was a thing! Thanks, History Matters!

@hansnase364 4 месяца назад

As a German, it never occured to me that the Hanseatic League probably isn't that well-known elsewhere (outside of history nerd circles). In Germany, being formerly part of the "Hanse" is a large part of of many German cities' identity.

@GwainSagaFanChannel 4 месяца назад

@@hansnase364 same here in the Netherlands it is very important since the Hanseatic trade and later on the Bulk trade are important over here

@freakout3516 4 месяца назад

Great little microcosm of German history. Cities like Hamburg and Lübeck still call themselves Hanseatic cities to this day and if you've ever wondered where the German Empire took the colours for its Black-White-Red flag from: the Red stripe was there to represent the Hanseatic Cities. Funnily enough the only imperial free cities that are still independent states within Germany today are former Hanseatic ones - Hamburg and Bremen. Lübeck having lost its independence in the 30s when it was given to Schleswig-Holstein in return for Schleswig-Holstein losing cities like Altona and Bergedorf. These were integrated into Hamburg as boroughs. So while the Hanseatic League is long gone, its legacy is still seen to this day. Not sure why I felt the need to lay this on you but alas, there you go.

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@markusdead96 4 месяца назад

@@GwainSagaFanChannel Sweden teached about Hansa in middle school as well.

@caseclosed9342 4 месяца назад

Cool that James Bisonette founded the Hanseatic League to help McWhopper expand his franchise…

@JorgeDiaz-ly5qp 4 месяца назад

Indeed, with a HUGE influx of cash from Kelly Moneymaker, a chief investor.

@Commander_Chopper 4 месяца назад

In it's prime the Hanseatic League actually fought and eventually won a war against Denmark, which is not something you would expect from a trade allience. Interestingly even though the league is long dissolved many german cities still carry it's name. For instance Lübeck is officially known as the "Hanseatic City of Lübeck", Hamburg as the "Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg" and Rostock as the "Hanseatic and University City of Rostock" (The football team from Rostock is even called "FC Hansa Rostock").

@seneca983 4 месяца назад

I don't think it's that unexpected. It's Denmark after all. When have they ever won wars? The only examples I can think of were against some rag-tag pirates, the First Schleswig War (due to international support), and maybe some really ancient stuff.

@Commander_Chopper 4 месяца назад

I think you are selling Denmark short here. Sure it wasn't a major power or anything but I wouldn't say they wre pushovers. But my point was mainly that you wouldn't expect a loose coalition of cities to defeat any nation (excluding city-states).

@seneca983 4 месяца назад

@@Commander_Chopper My comment wasn't entirely serious. Still, based on what I've come across when learning about history, Denmark's martial record seems rather unimpressive compared to e.g. Sweden despite it being quite rich. Yes, Sweden is bigger but still. And back then Denmark had the southern part of present-day Sweden (Skåne, Halland, & Blekinge).

@MUG-Authors 4 месяца назад

This is probably my absolute favorite among your videos. I had never learned about this Hanseatic League before and it's so intriguing how they managed to have power and influence against kingdoms and other more centralized political forces. Thank you for showing us a fascinating and under-appreciated part of history!

@boobah5643 4 месяца назад

I found the comparison to the merchant city-states in Italy a nice one. Although there the unifying forces were more financial than political. At least before various wars started to settle their differences.

@rennor3498 4 месяца назад

Technically the Hanseatic League continued to exist on paper untill the German Unification in 1871, with it's last official members being ironically the very same cities who founded it back in the 13th century: Hamburg, Bremen and Lubeck. All these three cities and even a handfull of others both in modern-day Germany and in some other countries with access to the Baltic still proudly bearing the honorary epiphet ''Hansastadt'' to this very day. I think there is even a Hanseatic festival which is collectively celebrated each year in a different former Hanseatic city.

@smartlucker4011 4 месяца назад

James Bisonette personally funded the Hanseatic League

@deadon4847 4 месяца назад

Lame

@magnushultgrenhtc 4 месяца назад

Great stuff! The Union of Kalmar (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) was a bit unstable already to begin with, but it did last for 125 years - from 1397 to 1523.

@fourganger88 4 месяца назад

There was a really interesting episode of "In Our Time" about the Hansestic League, it was on BBC Radio 4 last week. Three professors who were experts on it all geeking out together.

@handlebard 4 месяца назад

Yes - as soon as I saw his video I thought of that. HM achieves in around 2 mins what the BBC gave about an hour to. Both worth listening/watching

@JM-mg4el 4 месяца назад

I'm from a german town that got thrown out of the Hanse twice. The hansa conflicts with the pirates are super fascinating too

@mrterp04 4 месяца назад

Three other often-overlooked states video topics from a Patreon backer: 1.) What was the State of the Teutonic Order? 2.) Why did New Sweden and New Netherland fail? 3.) Why was the Sultanate of Zanzibar so short-lived?

@Fernando5455Jr 4 месяца назад

Always a good day when History Matters uploads a new video!

@jeiang 4 месяца назад

I was searching this up a few days ago because of metro, this is amazing timing

@kartikpathak629 4 месяца назад

Hanzas great in metro

@pipsqeak7104 4 месяца назад

@@kartikpathak629central metro command is better

@Onionguy_with_a_mustache 4 месяца назад

HE IS BACK

@Alfonso162008 4 месяца назад

He never went away, tho? 🤔

@blandbread5616 4 месяца назад

After years of “how” and “why videos” we finally get a proper history lesson again! But the old videos were cool too

@lmaocetung 4 месяца назад

It'd be great if you did a video about religious heretics in Europe, like Cathars, Hussites etc. I think it's a very interesting topic

@titchymitchy56 4 месяца назад

that is a thing in history that I literally never heard of but I found very interesting

@alt1f4 4 месяца назад

Make a video about the triple alliance/paraguayan war

@Wowjustwowjustwow 4 месяца назад

Only knew a little about this topic because of the Patrician series. Wish there were more baltic/north sea trading simulators

@mijanhoque1740 4 месяца назад

@1:33 “Made fat stacks” might just be my favourite quote from this channel 😂

@Mboy245 4 месяца назад

I'm glad for a new upload. Keep up the great work

@vattghern257 4 месяца назад

Man. THANK YOU really for making accurate borders of medieval Poland. I watch most of history yt channels and in 99% Poland in their videos looks like blob or splash without context.

@no.6660 4 месяца назад

I’m very glad to finally see some medieval stuff again

@python_lordm5896 4 месяца назад

I went on a day trip to Lübeck last summer. They're license plates say HL if my memory serves me correctly for "Hansestadt Lübeck". Very pretty old town, I'd recommend visiting

@Didyouknowthatiexist 4 месяца назад

Bring back the Hanseatic league!!!!

@dd_themeowbox6376 4 месяца назад

Lübeck, Hamburg and Bremen are technically still in it, it was reformed a couple years ago

@Mimi.1001 4 месяца назад

They already have, there is a new Hanseatic League (originally just called "Die Hanse") and most historic Hanseatic cities are members. They have a "Hanseatic day" in a member city every year, just like in medieval times, although it's more of a cultural and touristy event than a political. This new Hanse doesn't have a separate English Wikipedia article for some reason, despite probably being pretty significant. Funnily enough, there is even a second entity called the "New Hanseatic League" or even "Hanseatic League 2.0", this being an organization within the EU comprising the Nordic and Baltic countries, the Netherlands and Ireland which was created for stronger cooperation after Brexit.

@TheHylianBatman 4 месяца назад

I've been curious about the Hanseatic League for a while. Thanks for clearing that up!

@mike86812 4 месяца назад

I love the community of followers this channel has. You all are intelligent and have a great sense of humor. Also, no drama!

@tylerpoire3496 4 месяца назад

These are by far my favorite videos on RU-vid.

@B4ck-in-Time 4 месяца назад

Short and compact! Awesome how many information was condensed in only 3mins. Nice video!

@howiehall4622 4 месяца назад

That is so much information for just 2-1/2 minutes! Bravo!

@oscarcastillo1204 4 месяца назад

FINALLYYYYY, I WAS WAITING THIS VIDEO FOR SO LONG 😭❤️

@thegloriouspyrocheems2277 4 месяца назад

Why did Hanseatic League dissolve? James Bisonette stopped supporting it. Only real answer.

@ZechsMerquise73 4 месяца назад

nobody talks about the modern Hanseatiuc league consisting of Kelly Moneymaker, Calling Dr. Fine Dr. Howard, and Spinning Three Plates.

@grantorino2325 4 месяца назад

It's "calling Dr. Howard, Dr Fine, Dr. Howard." Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck!

@cameronshockley1689 4 месяца назад

These types of videos where you take some time to explain certain nations or wars in history are very cool and I would love if you did more.

@erikluning6361 4 месяца назад

As a swede, all learn in school is that the Hanseatic league was a main driving force for the establishment of the Kalmar union

@mardiffv.8775 4 месяца назад

That makes sense, down with the trade competition of the Hanseatic League.

@nox5555 4 месяца назад

@@mardiffv.8775 they were much more involved, fighting a pirate group allied to sweden...

@mardiffv.8775 4 месяца назад

@@nox5555Thanks.

@jaedenb3795 4 месяца назад

Can we just take a little bit of time appreciating History Matters for being the best history teacher?

@dave0397 4 месяца назад

A return to form IMHO. I have from time to time wondered what the Hanseatic League was. All my questions answered. Throughly satisfied with this post.

@thecrazycapn 4 месяца назад

You've taught me about the Hanseatic League and the League of Nations, but I'm still confused about the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

@mykeinso1364 4 месяца назад

I can always trust History Matters on the good stuff.

@puzanfish7705 4 месяца назад

I love your work but this would have been super helpful a week ago for my presentation on them but great work.

@anthemsofeurope2408 4 месяца назад

A big reason for the fall of the hanseatic league, was his main product. Salted fish was selled by hanseatic cities to Central and South Germany. It was aten during the catholic lent period. When Martin Luther forbid the lent in Protestantismus, nobody really needed fish anymore

@bruhbruh-us6gl 4 месяца назад

Another item in the long list of reasons why Protestantism was a mistake

@cattysplat 4 месяца назад

@@bruhbruh-us6gl L+ratio'd in sheer industrialisation and war. Although that's starting to bite in modern day now protestant countries have no ethics.

@edwinhuang9244 4 месяца назад

@@bruhbruh-us6gl That's like saying Christianity is a mistake because of the Crusades that helped destroy entire different cultures in the name of Christianity.

@bruhbruh-us6gl 4 месяца назад

@@edwinhuang9244 The crusades were completely justified. The Muslims invaded the holy land first and nearly wiped out the cultures that had been living there for centuries. The crusaders were trying to take back those lands

@bruhbruh-us6gl 4 месяца назад

@@cattysplat Industrialisation is not exclusive to protestant countries and the French (catholics) have the most recorded victories in history.

@Kevinlikescountrys 4 месяца назад

Man, this is an AMAZING, Tutorial thanks man!

@MCsCreations 4 месяца назад

Fascinating!

@neilbain8736 4 месяца назад

Kings Lynn in Norfolk was part of the Hanseatic League. Since it was flat, a nifty item of bling a rich merchant could have was a tower where he could stand with a telescope and look out for his ship while also maintaining a hot fire and a mistress in the rooms below. At least that's what I was told when I visited.

@RubberToeYT 4 месяца назад

Great video, always enjoy topics like this

@bendobendo 4 месяца назад

I was so incredibly excited to see this in my feed

@ecgberht4973 4 месяца назад

They just did a big series on the Hanseatic League on the History of the Germans podcast if you want an expanded explanation. This video sums it nicely!

@timmccarthy9917 4 месяца назад

Cities: go over the heads of their local states to do things the states aren't keen on Me, from Austin, Texas: 👀

@YorkGod1 4 месяца назад

I always look forward to these videos! & I always Enjoy them! Keep them coming!!!😁👍

@joec9693 4 месяца назад

When you are researching the Hanseatic League on Friday for a DnD campaign idea and this video drops on Monday.

@flawyerlawyertv7454 4 месяца назад

Great vid as always. Keep it up! 👍

@chrislj2890 4 месяца назад

1:39 Dude has Apple Vision Pro lol. Gotta love the witty humor.

@Nekorook 4 месяца назад

I was thinking of them the other morning and now this video is in my feed.

@tylermiller5836 4 месяца назад

This is an awesome video definitely do more stuff like this.

@Choppytehbear1337 4 месяца назад

Every day you upload is a good day.

@WizardsGamingGarden 4 месяца назад

The king of history has returned. welcome back history matters!!!

@death-istic9586 4 месяца назад

Love your videos!💚

@richardthomas5362 4 месяца назад

This guy never disappoints.

@sirjanska9575 4 месяца назад

Before having watched the vid: I just completed an extensive college essay on the Hansa, let's see how well you covered it. Edit: Adequately but there were important omissions and mistakes. Originally for instance the League wasn't founded by towns but instead the merchants and it came under town control only later, and no mention was made of the crucial role of Lübeck as the leader of the League, or the Hanseatic diet, the sole official institution of the League. Also global trade didn't end the League, the decline began earlier with the consolidation of strong local powers and especially the emergence of powerful Dutch merchants in the Baltic sea whose rasher and more modern business methods, along with technological innovations in ship crafting, the more conservative north Germans weren't anticipating. With that said the League did still limb up until the 1600s as a local trade association.

@fabvz5436 4 месяца назад

Literally never heard of it before and finded it trully amazing, thanks HM

@mardiffv.8775 4 месяца назад

I heard of it is small history lesson long time ago. But I forgot, until I visited the city of Zwolle, the Netherlands. Which is proud of its Hanseatic past.

@Mimi.1001 4 месяца назад

@@mardiffv.8775 Apparently, they are so proud of their Hanseatic past that they re-established the Hanse outright in 1980.

@Iandepian. 4 месяца назад

Amazing

@brll5733 4 месяца назад

One of the most fascinating aspects is that they actually I produced a form of "standardised container" in the form of normed barrels

@SheppardOfNumenor 4 месяца назад

Nothing like chowing down onto a chicken shawarma while listening to a new history matters.

@jesusbermudez6775 4 месяца назад

Yes, I did enjoy this description.

@antoniomoreira5921 4 месяца назад

Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's interested in hardcore Medieval Germany I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series

@mikecronis 4 месяца назад

Intriguing!

@privateeyety5735 4 месяца назад

Never even heard of them. Fun bit of history learned today!

@nik65stgt60 4 месяца назад

Great content!

@fatdaddyeddiejr 4 месяца назад

Learning new things everyday.

@todd203 4 месяца назад

Honestly never heard of the Hanseatic League until this video came out. Great lesson. 👍

@sALah1550 4 месяца назад

One of the best channels on youtube

@miguelafonso4466 4 месяца назад

First video of his I've seen in a bit, and impressively James Bizonet and KellyMoneyMaker are still donating after all these years

@CCNYMacGuy 4 месяца назад

To use a technical term, they must have fat stacks.

@TheGeneralGrievous19 4 месяца назад

In Poland we actually learn stout The Hanseatic League since Polish cities like Gdańsk or Elbląg were a part of it. Those, mostly inhabitated by Germans, were still quite loyal to Poland like during the Thirteen Years' War. Before nationalism there were actually many ethic Germans who lived in the Crown of Poland or fought for Poland.

@josephd.3654 4 месяца назад

If the league survives, who knows James Bisonette would be a patron to such guilds we all wanted in a fantasy reality?

@jonbaxter2254 4 месяца назад

A fascinating and well-organised network, even back then.

@Leonbobway 4 месяца назад

Good job boys!

@daveroche6522 4 месяца назад

Genuinely fascinating subject - still can't understand why it was never covered in History classes in school. Thank you from Dublin. + + + + +

@boobah5643 4 месяца назад

As the plethora of history channels on RU-vid attest, there's a _lot_ of history, so they can't cram it all in. Plus, bits are often left in or removed for political or even personal reasons... and inertia works on both deletion and inclusion.

@davidsuda6110 4 месяца назад

What is the real impact of the Hasniatic league? Why did it echo into the modern era? It's worth a mention because of it's size and duration but beyond that I don't know why a general history class would do more on it.