RE: The Development of Cities
Strange. I thought the Hanseatic League declined as the power of the states increased in the areas where the league operated. The League was primarily a free trade union between a number of independent baltic city-states and dealt in a number of goods, fish being only one of them. As the power of the states and kings surrounding the cities of the League grew, so did the power of the league diminish.
As for friday nosh: most of northern europe went protestantic around the time the hanseatic league began to go into a deathspin anyway.
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