The Persian Empire fell to Alexander the Great you retard.

The Persia that fell to the muslims was a kingdom hadly larger than Iran is today.

Curious why you seem to want to continue a conversation about history when you clearly aren't well read on the topic.

And I was referring to the culture that survived, not the empire. Which is why I wrote "culture", and not "Empire". You need to work on your reading comprehension skills if you thought I was implying the Persian Empire survived the muslims when I'd already mentioned the islamic conquest of Persia. Never mind that the empire had been dead and buried for over a thousand years by then.

The persians are one of the few who kept their language (nearly all other cultures now speak arabic), and they kept a lot of their traditions and ways (while most others are surprisingly similar as arabic), and they managed to save some of their cultural history and art from the islamic iconoclasm, which almost no other cultures managed to do. That's why there is an identifiable perian culture today, but hardly an Egyptian one, or Jordanian one, or Babylonian one, etc, who have all just become Arabic. Even zoroastrianism survived in some parts of Iran.