An influential aspect of Athenian government on modern democracies is the use of juries to decide trials.
In the sixth century BC, democracy started in the Greek city-states and it is considered to have been the first democracy in the world.
The role of juries in a trial is to make decisions. Jury trials tend to be used in important serious criminal cases in nearly all common law lawful systems.
Democracy was a system of government under which all male citizens were entitled to participate directly in the political life, they had freedom of speech and equal political rights.