I believe the answer is: Politicians and government are inspired by them today. We both believe in equality and elections.
The main difference between the democratic system that with held today and the athenian democracy lied within the representation.
In athenian democracy, people could directly vote for the type of legislation that they want to pass while in our current democracy, people could only vote for the representative.
B) The puritans. The amish did not believe in conformity and the puritans valued hard work. Hence the new world.
