OMG, you are really, really smart!
I realize you understood that I was talking about the Byrzantine/Sasanian War, but I wanted to make a point even the less intelligent people would understand. Smart people like us have to talk down to the less intelligent, as you are well aware.
And DO NOT even get me started on Persia just being a province whose name was generalized! How can the dumb people be expected to know THAT?
Hardly - smart I’d consider if I demonstrated ability to co-relate and innovate.
People can’t be expected to know about Iran vs Persia, but we can help change people’s definitions and point of recall. For instance I refuse to call liberals as “progressive” or to use the term “pro-choice” as it then indicates that those who disagree with these views are “not progressive” and “anti-choice”.