History A-Level
Trade networks
What Trade networks means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Trade networks
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Links between German states and with international markets, with the Hanseatic League dominating Baltic and North Sea trade and southern cities thriving on banking and textiles.
Topics that use Trade networks
- Conditions in early sixteenth- century Germany (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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