Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic league was formed in the Baltic sea. Hansa ships sailed from the Baltic sea to the North Sea though the Sound and all the other Northern European countries, depending on them for supplies. They transported important raw materials like iron, lead, tin, copper, leather and grains such as rye oats and barley, and so on. Transporting these goods along the various trade routes was not always easy. While in interior Europe there were plenty of regular means of transportation, transportation be sea, despite human error and mishaps, was undoubtably less costly. While merchants ships never sailed during the winter, this was offset by the long distances that could be covered and the higher profits that could be made from the transport of