Considering the weather bumper riding comes to mind, I don't see that being close to reality either, what I do see if the living example of the Afghanistan local situation in the '70's saw a gradual weakening of the land barons having full control over those that lived on the land he 'owned'. That didn't change any when the Brit's gained the upper-hand (again) at the end of WWi, their lives were the same at the start of WWII and the introduction of a global agreement of what would be called 'basic rights of the individual' . Introduced in 1950 (easy math) and in 1975 the new students that were exposed to those new laws came into power by becoming of age and seeing the changes as being good for the locals by no bigger sacrifice than the land barons got 1 vote instead of all 10,000 that would be given votes under the 'over 21' rule. The 'old' were almost eliminated before the US started giving them the means to start killing the ones who voted them out of power
That little window is all that should be talked about because proof trumps speculation in the real world. It will show they were adopting all of them as being the 'law in the land'. The other tiny window is Iran between one man coming to power and the coup that overthrew him and his for of governing. What replaced it was the same form of rulers that were in power in Afghanistan pre-1970 and post-1985, with all human rights abolished and with US blessings.
The few articles I have read all follow the same theme, the rights of women and children saw the greatest gains in the shortest time. University for everybody (interested) would not have been a hard sell considering the reforms that had taken place in the process of changing who ruled. The land barons did not go willingly or peacefully. so there was a civil war and the university grads were winning it. Why it didn't finish is because of outside interference, by Christian backed nations who did nothing when the truth came out so their are a mile or so from being moral Christians.