| CYRUSTHEGREAT | Who founded the First Persian Empire? (5,3,5) |
| GAUGAMELA | The battle of ___ (or Arbela) in October 331 BC spelled the end of the first Persian empire (9) |
| CYRUS | -----the Great, founder of the first Persian Empire (5) |
| MENES | Pharaoh who founded the first dynasty of Egypt and is believed to have introduced the ritual of god |
| ERIK | ___ the Red, Norse explorer who founded the first European settlement on Greenland (4) |
| FROEBEL | Friedrich, German educator who founded the first kindergarten (7) |
| HENRY | Scottish minister who founded the first savings bank, in 1810 (5,6) |
| LEVISTRAUSS | German-born US businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans (4,7) |
| AVIS | Warren, U.S. businessman who founded the first car rental company to be based at an airport (4) |
| CUNARD | Samuel, British merchant born in 1787 who founded the first regular Atlantic steamship line (6) |
| REUTER | Who founded the first news agency in London, Baron Paul ... (6) |
| HARRYRAMSDEN | Yorkshire businessman who founded the first in a chain of fish and chips stores in 1928 (5,7) |
| STRAUSS | Levi, German-born businessman who founded the first company to make blue jeans (7) |
| REIMANN | In 1883 who, with Cecil Sharp, founded the first Australian college of music, the Adelaide College o |
| PERSEPOLIS | Which city was the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire during the Achaemenid dynasty and the si |
| ALEXANDER | King of Macedon who conquered Greece, Egypt and the Persian Empire, known as 'the Great' (9) |
| IRAN | The Azadi Tower, a monument built to celebrate the 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire, is in this country (4) |
| SASSANID | Ancient Persian empire of the 3rd to 7th century A.D. also called the Empire of Iranians (8) |
| PEKING | At first Persian monarch consumes some eatables in Beijing (6) |
| THERED | Norseman celebrated for having founded the first Nordic settlement, Erik ___ ___ (3,3) |
