Read the excerpt from a speech. Then answer the question that follows.
Let me say that our system of government does not copy the institutions of our neighbors. It is more the case of our being a model to others than of our imitating anyone else. Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands, not of a minority, but of the whole people.
—Pericles's Funeral Oration
Which early society is described in this excerpt?
A. Athenian society
B. Babylonian society
C. Egyptian society
D. Spartan society