Names for Warriors

I definitely went cataphract first. Immortals isn't even the Persian name - it's just the name used by the notoriously inaccurate Herodotus.

Why should be roman/byzanitine soldier an answer for question "Elite soldier of ancient Persia"?

The soldiers were called musketeers, regardless.

The musketeers were trained in using muskets and swords, pikes, or daggers. Firearms of the age were slow to reload and not very accurate meaning that in a battle that started as a fire fight it might end up as a melee. Common musketeers were probably not very adept at using bladed weapons, as the musket was a way of making even a minimally trained soldier deadly, but the three musketeers in the Dumas novel are not just musketeers but part of the king's elite guard. Once the rifle replaced the musket and the bayonet was invented and popularized, use of swords by foot soldiers gradually died out, though cavalry continued to use sabers for almost another three centuries. The musketeers of France included both foot soldiers and light cavalry, the light cavalry were called dragoons.

+1

and civ 6

Nope, that was his 12 foremost concubines. ;)

I am from New England and minute men are a pretty big deal, since they fought most of the revolution in the year of our lord 1775, including actions at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. Until congress formally created the continental army they relied on militia who could be prepared at a minutes notice

It is an American thing, but that's like saying you don't know hoplites because you are not from Greece.