Western democracy was born on the city-state civilization from Greece,if you look at the map you will see the geographic area is very segmented by ocean,most places are peninsula and mountain land That means it was very hard for a unified regime to control the whole part and also mountain land with less fertile land compared with the agricultural civilization neighbor（Accident Egypt,Babylonia) can not developed agriculture There are 2 notable features for Great Greece culture: 1,Freedom No unified regime means people of that part was relatively free and diversified ideologies and religions survived which developed the"Freedom" concept 2,Commercial Civilization Because of lacking good soil but nearby the agricultural countries,massive transactions made that logically consequenced the Commercial Civilization very early The commercial civilization shape the initial west society to cause the following points: 1,Spirit of contract This is the fundamental of transaction which can successfully carry on 2,Equality If you do business what you firstly care? Profit! you don't care the gender,race,religion…etc. The goal is to make more profits,so that should emphasize "everyone is equal" 3,Innovation&adventure Business man travels a lot,in the accident time they were natual adventurers, and because lack of food which you need,people in Greece developed booming handcrafted industry,which request people always have new ideas to create the fancy stuff for which others were willing to pay…