What if Athenian democracy had gone differently?

Athens hands real decisions to an assembly of ordinary citizens chosen by lot.

If it had gone differently: Self-rule by citizens is never even attempted in the ancient world; the moderns have no example to point back to.

1. -509The Roman Republic, Italy stays a patchwork of small kingdoms; there is no republic, no Senate, no working model of citizenship for Europe to inherit.
2. -400Greek natural philosophy, Reasoned enquiry into how the world works never takes hold; there is no classical canon for medieval scholars to recover.
3. 1720The Enlightenment, Absolutism keeps its intellectual cover; 'rights of man' never enters common speech.