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How big an impact did Athenean democracy really had on history? I'm starting to doubt the idea that if Athens never existed we wouldn't have democracy today.
Consider this:
>Athenean democracy only existed for 2 centuries
>Hellenism didn't spread democracy, the successor states of Alexander's empire were monarchies
>Rome developed it's own republican system with elections without Athenean influence
>Rome was more of a model for modern democracies than Athens. The US and France both based their system on the Romans'.
>other societies also developed elective systems on their own, such as Carthage, Poland, some Norse and Irish groups.
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>>2145374
>Rome
>democracy
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>>2145374
This is actually the standard view.
Also Rome wasn't a democracy at all. Ignore dumbfuck republicaboos.
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>>2145476
we aint living in an actual democracy either amigo
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>>2145492
Thank God.
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Athen's greatest impact on human history was the beginning of the long tradition of "free" nations (read America and Great Britain) ruthlessly exploiting their neighbors.
404BC best day of my life, take a bath in dead Athenian walls.
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