Ramesses II: Early Life, Military Leadership

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Ramesses II

In my essay i will be talking about Ramesses II about his early life, military leadership and also his weaknesses and strengths throughout the time he lived as pharaoh.

Ramesses II was the third pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty. He ruled from 1279 to 1213 BC. he was known as a extremely famous ruler. The egyptian people loved prosperity. He was also noted as Ozymandias. He declared that he was successful in the determining win over the hittites during the war of kadesh, he used this to strengthen his character as a great fighter. Ramesses lived to be 96 years old he had over more than 200 wives and mistresses he also had 96 sons and daughters which he lived longer than them. He was the son of Seti I and Queen Tuya he would also go with his dad on military sources.
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He also had defeated pirates who troubled the delta region. In 1274 BC ramesses had developed an army of 20,000 men against the kadesh. The loss of kadesh had no important territorial gain but it did help people see that egypt would not be messed around with if they have a challenge with there challenged superpower until the formal peace treaty was agreed between the hittites and egypt eighteen years after their battle.
After the peace treaty they had a peaceful and communally valuable time. He had verified that great and good rulers may make a mistake just like he had done and kadesh had done during the battle, ramesses is really trustworthy, brave, and fought many battles. He made really big changes in egypt in really different and incredible ways not like the other pharaohs had done. The next part of ramesses life is his weaknesses throughout his

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