Persian Meiji

POD 1850 - Eager to participate in the Great Game, Shah Nasser begins a crash course industrialisation programme. The education system undergoes an overhaul with parents encouraged to send their children to government subsidised schools. The military undergoes an overhaul with French based training. Currency reforms are introduced with the Rial being on the Gold Standard

1881 - Persia gets Eritrea and Ethiopia in the Scramble for africa

1914 - The great war breaks out between France/Persia/Britain/Russia/Japan/China/Serbia/Greece agaisnt Germany/Turkey/Austria-Hungary/Siam/Bulgaria. Shah Soltan orders "plan Zulfiqar" to go into effect.