The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . .A confederacy was formed of the cities ot Hamburg and Liibeck, to mu-tually defend each other against all violence, and particularly against theattacks of the nobles This confederacy was shortly joined by otherGerman cities, until the League consisted of no less than eighty-fivecities and communities. About the same time four great factories orde
The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . .A confederacy was formed of the cities ot Hamburg and Liibeck, to mu-tually defend each other against all violence, and particularly against theattacks of the nobles This confederacy was shortly joined by otherGerman cities, until the League consisted of no less than eighty-fivecities and communities. About the same time four great factories ordepots were established in foreign countries: at London, in 1220 ; , in 1252 ; at Novgorod, in 1272 ; and at Bergen, in 1278. Diets,were held at stated intervals by the League, which exercised judicialpower at home and a strict discipline over its connections abroad. Thelaws prescribed to the agents of the English fur companies in America,such as the Hudson Bay Company, were patterned after those of the-Hanseatic factories. The last Diet of the Hansa was held at Liibeck im1630, when the old confederation was dissolved. 46 The Pennsylvania-Gervian Society. were the prevention of piracy and shipwreck, the in- ?•crease of agricultural. Hanseatic Arms.(London.) j)roducts, a develop-ment of the fisheries,the mining industryand the manufacturesof Germany ;^^ in fact,-everything calculatedto increase the wealthand importance of thenation. One of the chief re--sults of the wise policy?pursued by the Han-seatic League was the fact that everywhere through-out the known world the German merchants andtraders became famous for their probity and enter-prise. The influence of the League extended toKngland, Sweden, Russia and the lesser countries;.and by the perfection of its organization and co-oper-ation with the Venetians, the merchants of Germanyat the period under consideration may be said to haveControlled the trade of Europe, if not of the world.^^ It is true that the Venetians
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