What is the effect of this cause" athens was the first known democracy"

Athens yes was the first city to actually have a democracy but it has much evolved from then into the type of government we have now.

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i learned it last year

earlier philosophers whose work influenced the enlightenment included bacon, descartes, locke, and spinoza. the major figures of the enlightenment included beccaria, diderot, hume, kant, montesquieu, rousseau, adam smith, and voltaire. it spread the ideas of the enlightenment across europe and beyond.

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