Result · What Era Should You Have Lived In?

Classical Athens

Fifth century BCE: you'd have spent your days at the Assembly, where speech wasn't an abstract right but a technical skill, and where a vote could exile a citizen for ten years without accusing him of anything — ostracism, decided on shards of broken pottery. You like an idea to be tested in front of witnesses, and that was the place for it. What would have broken you there: this democracy covered roughly one adult in ten. Women had no political rights, slaves kept the city running, and foreigners settled for three generations stayed metics. If you weren't born male, free and Athenian, your brilliant rhetoric had nowhere to happen.