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New trade relations strengthened the relationship by providing both sides new goods and ideas. however, it also divided them by spreading diseases to the other.
The 1300´s land route and later canal connecting Lubeck with Hamburg is so important because Lubeck had become a very important merchant´s base by those days, having access to the Baltic and North Sea. In 1241 it formed an alliance with Hamburg, which in turn controlled access to salt trade routes.
