Your challenge, if you choose to accept, is to write a timeling making the Persian Empire, established by Cyrus the Great, last to the present day. It must be a powerful and modern entity. Please have a detailed timeline of it. Thanks!
It's called Iran.
It must be called Persia in this timeline, though. And it must have the extent of territory that it had under Darius the Great. If you want to add territory to the Empire, you are free to do so.
Persia is a stupid misnomer: Persia is only a province. It's like the greeks calling the entirety of Hellas Akhaia because the Romans did it.
Iran is to be called Persia, nothing else in this timeline.
Have Europeans remain stupid and keep insisting on the name on maps. The Persians won't call it this when they likely didn't then either.
Iran is a medieval name for Persia.
I have an Iranian friend, and he refers to himself ethnically as Persian. He hates Arabs and thinks of the current regime as an Arabic one. He thinks Arabs are invaders and culturally inferior.
He always was an interesting person. When we talk about his country, we rarely use the word 'Iran', and always call it Persia.
Your challenge, if you choose to accept, is to write a timeling making the Persian Empire, established by Cyrus the Great, last to the present day. It must be a powerful and modern entity. Please have a detailed timeline of it. Thanks!
I guess you mean the Achaemedian Empire. I suppose if they retain control over the Greeks and Macedonians they could hold on for quite some time, but in the end they'll break up just like any other Empire. Perhaps we'll see a rump kingdom in core Iran, at best.
Which 'Persian' empire do you mean?
Median Empire?
Achaemenid Empire?
Seleucid Empire?
Parthian Empire?
Sassanid Empire?
Tahirid Empire?
Saffarid Empire?
Seljuq Empire?
Timurid Empire?
It must be powerful, modern, and as large as it was during the time of Darius the Great, with Macedonia and Greece added.
I mean the Archaemenid Empire.
The only dynasty with a claim at all to have lasted anything like the time you describe is the Japanese royal family and they did that mainly by being figureheads that legitimized the real rulers. The Achaemenid system did not permit that kind of continuity, and Japan is IIRC the only society to preserve intact the same dynasty from the Tang Dynasty into the 21st Century.