Fall Asleep as a Merchant Living Through the Tulip Mania in the Dutch Republic

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Fall asleep in seventeenth-century Amsterdam as you experience the strange rise and fall of Tulip Mania through the eyes of a cautious merchant.

Your days begin among quiet canals, crowded counting houses, elegant merchant homes, and carefully balanced ledgers. But across the Dutch Republic, a fashionable new obsession is taking hold. Rare tulip bulbs are becoming symbols of beauty, prestige, and increasingly astonishing amounts of money.

As prices rise, respectable merchants begin discussing...