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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Chapter 18 Salted Herring, Fifty Foods that Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7

Chapter 18: Salted Herring

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Answer Key

1. Salted Herring comes from the Baltic Sea, North Sea, and the North Atlantic.
2. The Hansa or Hanseatic League was a cross-border mercantile association of towns and cities.
3. Arras was the name of the French town that exported herring in the 15th century.
4. Answers will vary
5. The Falsterbo Peninsula is the southernmost tip of Sweden.
6. Lubeck was the name of the city located in the Holy Roman Empire, that is now Germany, that merchants went to the Scania Market to buy fish.
7. Lubeck was the name of the city that the merchants supplied the salt from Luneberg Salt Springs in Northern Germany.
8. True, during this time period, the fish was cheap and it became a staple of food.
9. Lubeck merchants formed trade guilds within their city.
10. Answers will vary
11. A council governed the Hanseatic League.
12. The Hansetag was the name of the party that control/governed the Hanseatic League.
13. The Hanseatic League reached its height in the 15th century.  The Hanseatic League extended from Bruges and London to the west to Novgorod in the east.
14. The Hansa merchants left their culture in the Brick Gothic Buildings in today's Luneberg region.
15. The Hanseatic League dissolved in the 1750s.
16. In 1398 the road from Luneburg to Lubeck was superseded by a canal.
17. The Luneberg Salt Works are found today in the German Salt Museum.
18. The Salted Herring is the silver of the sea.

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