If I understood your question correctly, the culture that was present in Athens at the time when they first started with the project we today know as democracy surely did play a role in the atual development of democracy. They did not have a central authoritarian figure which would ruthlesly and without question rule over his people as was happening in other place, this was one important reason for why democracy could have been developed there in the first place.
All are possible except for C)
I would go with B) alot of build up for this.
Answer:
B
Explanation:
D is certainly true of Russia. Most of the bloodiest battles were fought on Russian Soil. I'm not sure it is true of the United States.
C is absurd. They were the victors. Victors don't receive punishment.
A was true only for a very short period of time.
I think your answer has to be B.
Historical for the Chinese.
