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The empire that invented bureaucracy, tolerance, and losing gracefully to Greeks in movies.
means Relating to Persia (historical Iran) — its people, language, culture, or the modern cat breed bred for a flat face and spectacular fur.
from From Latin 'Persia' via Greek 'Persis,' ultimately from Old Persian 'Pārsa,' the name of the region (modern Fars province) and its people — the same root that gives Iran's language its name 'Farsi.' The cat breed was simply imported from Persia into Europe and named for its origin, no myth required.
- cat version
- Flat-faced, long-haired, bred to look perpetually unimpressed.
- actual empire
- First to run a multiethnic empire on official tolerance, not terror.
- language fact
- Farsi survived Arab conquest, Mongols, and still writes poetry best.
- 300 problem
- Hollywood cast them as snarling villains; they invented the postal system.