Hanseatic League

Examples of Hanseatic League in the following topics:

• Trade and Commerce

  • In cities linked to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea a trade monopoly developed in the Hanseatic League.
  • Long-distance trade in the Baltic intensified, as the major trading towns came together in the Hanseatic League, under the leadership of Lübeck.
  • The Hanseatic League was an alliance of North German and Baltic cities during the Middle Ages.
  • The Hanseatic League was founded for the purpose of joining forces for promoting mercantile interests, defensive strength and political influence.
  • By the 14th century, the Hanseatic League held a near-monopoly on trade in the Baltic, especially with Novgorod and Scandinavia.

• Wood Sculpture

  • Hamburg was one of the cities in the Hanseatic League, then at the height of its prosperity, and artists such as Master Francke, the Master of the Malchin Altar, Hans Bornemann, Hinrik Funhof, and Wilm Dedeke, who survived into the Renaissance period, succeeded Bertram in the city.
  • Hanseatic artists painted commissions for Baltic cities in Scandinavia and for modern Baltic States to the east.

• Painting and Other Forms of Art

  • Hamburg was one of the cities in the Hanseatic League, then at the height of its prosperity, and Bertram was succeeded in the city by artists such as Master Francke, Hans Bornemann, Hinrik Funhof and Wilm Dedeke.
  • Hanseatic artists painted commissions for Baltic cities in Scandinavia and the modern Baltic states to the east.
  • Bernt Notke, a painter from the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, painted altarpieces or carved them in the increasingly elaborate painted and gilded style used as frameworks or alternatives for painted panels.

• Italian Trade Cities

  • The trade routes of the Italian states linked with those of established Mediterranean ports and eventually the Hanseatic League of the Baltic and northern regions of Europe to create a network economy in Europe for the first time since the 4th century.

• The Adams Presidency

  • Among his diplomatic achievements were treaties of reciprocity with a number of nations, including Denmark, Mexico, the Hanseatic League, the Scandinavian countries, Prussia, and Austria.

• Danish Intervention

  • After the Defenestration of Prague and the ensuing Bohemian Revolt, the Protestants warred with the Catholic League until the former were firmly defeated at the Battle of Stadtlohn in 1623.
  • Wallenstein lacked a fleet, and neither the Hanseatic ports nor the Poles would allow the building of an imperial fleet on the Baltic coast.
  • At this point, the Catholic League persuaded Ferdinand II to take back the Lutheran holdings that were, according to the Peace of Augsburg, rightfully the possession of the Catholic Church.

• The League of Nations

• World War I and the League of Nations

  • The League of Nations was created as an international organization after WWI.
  • Sanctions could hurt League members, so they were reluctant to comply with them.
  • In the 1930s, Germany withdrew from the League, as did Japan, Italy, Spain, and others.
  • The countries on the map represent those that have been involved with the League of Nations.
  • Explain the historical rise and fall of the League of Nations after World War I

• The League of Nations

  • The league was the brainchild of U.S.
  • The Paris Peace Conference approved the proposal to create the League of Nations in January 1919, and the league was established by Part I of the Treaty of Versailles.
  • Representation at the league was often a problem.
  • Harding, continued American opposition to the League of Nations.
  • The league cannot be labeled a failure, however, as it laid the groundwork for the United Nations, which replaced the League of Nations after World War II and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the league.

• Immigration Restriction League

  • The Immigration Restriction League called for restrictions on immigration of people from certain parts of the world.
  • The League was founded in Boston and had branches in New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
  • The influence of the Immigration Restriction League declined but it remained active for nearly twenty years.
  • The League disbanded after the death of its president, Prescott F.
  • Portrait of George Edmunds, a founding member of the Immigration Restriction League