Great. Any major developments in the last 2,000 years?
I don't lump Britain in with Europe. If that's not common, sorry. Your comment on the Iroquois was accurate, but not sure I'd class them as "European." I admired the Icelandic form of government, too. Is that "European?" Or recent?
I already conceded that many people who believed in the principles of democracy were European. That didn't change much in Europe. A lot of them left. Ayn Rand was Russian, but that doesn't make Russia a beacon of individualist thought.
The fact is, that true "government by the people" on any large scale was the result of Englishmen founding a new country across the ocean.
Ancient Greece and Rome? Kind of reaching a bit.