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036 - Titus Gebel: Medieval City-States

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The Hanseatic League and the Markets

Hanseatic League didn't create one weight. I don't know that, but I think I wouldn't know if they would because it took another 10 years to harmonize all these different weights and measures. But probably the Hanseatic people, they had maybe some agreed on something or they knew like we know, okay, dollar euro exchange rate,. They probably had that in their minds. And the markets, are you saying that there weren't many markets for your average citizen to trade? Or as in fresh fruit and veg and that kind of stuff? Or they were in existence as well? This is just... Yeah, I think this was the way to deal in the Middle Ages

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