#4 The Tasty Rock that Changed the World (Salt: A World History)
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The Hanziatic League and the Danes
The Hanziatics controlled the mouths of all the northerly flowing rivers of central Europe from the Rhine to the Vistula. They had organizations in Iceland, in London, and as far south as Ukraine and even in Venice. In 1403 when the Hanziatic League gained complete control of Bergen Norway, it had achieved a monopoly on northern European production of herring and salt. And they only lose their power when in 1652 with the British and Navy destroyed their whole herring fleet. Those are the two big dominant trading areas for a lot of really European and Western history.
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