The characteristics of Athenian democracy emphasize citizens' democratic rights and sense of responsibility. In the history of world civilization, the ancient Greeks are a nation with outstanding creativity on the basis of inheritance. Their creativity stems from their studious spirit, natural curiosity, inquisitive and open national character, which urges them to seek knowledge from all aspects, no matter where this knowledge comes from, such as Herodotus, the "father of history" and Thales, the philosopher, who traveled all over the East in search of true knowledge. They not only made brilliant achievements in many cultural fields, but also produced many outstanding cultural masters.

The fundamental purpose of Athens' democratic system is to unite the citizens of the polis to the greatest extent, maintain independence in the competition of the polis, seize foreign wealth and slaves, and take advantage.

From the beginning of the 6th century BC to the middle of the 5th century BC, Solon, Cleisthenes and Perikles successively launched three large-scale social reforms, which injected inexhaustible vitality into the Athenian society, broke the social stagnation, led Athens out of the predicament of decline, and made it gradually ahead of other ancient Greek city-states in the fields of politics, economy, military affairs, culture, art and architecture, and finally became the civilization center of the ancient Greek world.

Under the democratic system of Athens city-state, literature, art, economy and military all developed greatly, and even became the source of European Renaissance. . "What the Greeks borrowed, whether it was Egyptian art form or Mesopotamian mathematics and astronomy, was branded with the unique wisdom of the Greeks. These characteristics boil down to being open-minded, curious, good at thinking, eager for knowledge and rich in common sense. " The creation of ancient Greek civilization is indeed based on absorbing the excellent heritage of ancient oriental civilization; It is the wisdom of the Greeks to step on the shoulders of "giants". In Plato's words, it is "we make everything borrowed from foreign countries more beautiful". The foundation of ancient Greek culture is the source of eastern culture, and it has developed into the source of western culture. The creator is the real successor, and the creativity of the Greeks proves this. Ancient Greek science and culture is a masterpiece of ancient Greeks, but it is also a product based on the eastern science and culture of West Asia and North Africa. Without the ancient civilization in West Asia and North Africa and the unique human and geographical environment in the eastern Mediterranean, especially in the Aegean region, the origin of ancient Greek science and culture cannot be fully explained, which not only shows that ancient Greek science and culture has its highly developed time and space, forms and ways, but also strongly shows that "civilization comes from the East".