Assertion: democracy's form | /r/CapableOf | disappear in the west
Facets:
value: at the beginning of late antiquity
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Western democracy, as distinct from that which existed in pre-modern societies, is generally considered to have originated in city-states such as Classical Athens and the Roman Republic, where various schemes and degrees of enfranchisement of the free male population were observed before the form disappeared in the West at the beginning of late antiquity.