5. Amsterdam, Netherlands — 12.503 points
Amsterdam is known around the world as a gigantic party-city destination, and it was the wealthiest city in the world during the zenith of the Atlantic slave trade under the Dutch West India Company. But aetataureate Amsterdam was conquered by Napoleon and left to stagnate. It reemerged with a more robust economy, a new system of canals, and population growth only to be reconquered, this time by the Third Reich, and 75% of the Jewish people in the Netherlands were killed by the Nazis. Amsterdam’s low population of ethnic Dutch and high religious tolerance earn it high points, but the city has notable ethnic tension over time.
