https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PFWefG3yLg Amsterdam in the 1600s: The Golden Age (AI Reconstruction) What Amsterdam Looked Like in the 1600s | The Golden Age (AI Reconstruction) What was Amsterdam like before it became a global financial center? Before stock exchanges, multinational corporations, and modern infrastructure, Amsterdam was already quietly organizing the world around it. In this video, History Evolution explores Amsterdam during the 17th century Golden Age, when the city emerged as a central node in global trade — not through conquest, but through coordination, systems, and record-keeping. Using period maps, architectural remains, shipping records, and contemporary written accounts, we reconstruct Amsterdam as it functioned in the 1600s. These reconstructions are rendered as ultra-realistic visuals and animated to restore motion and scale — allowing us to observe the city from above, walk its streets, and follow the flow of goods through its canals and harbor. Guided by our AI historian Dr. Henry Alden, we examine Amsterdam as a working system: The concentric canal network as urban infrastructure The merchant houses and warehouses that organized trade The harbor as a transit point, not a store of wealth The Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the mechanics of global commerce Taverns, markets, and informal institutions of information exchange Religious life shaped by Calvinist restraint Governance through administration rather than spectacle This is not a dramatization. There are no myths, no heroic narratives, and no modern assumptions. What we see instead are routines, records, and relationships — the foundations of the modern global city taking shape through daily practice. 🎓 Narration & Historical Perspective Presented by Dr. Henry Alden Historian (AI Reconstruction)