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This 4 page paper discusses the reign of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, his great building projects, and the fact that he negotiated and signed the world’s first peace treaty. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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buildings he built, as well as the peace treaty for which hes known. Discussion Ramses II (Ramses the Great) was the third ruler of the 19th Dynasty (1279-1212 BC),
and expanded the Egyptian empire greatly during his reign (Ramses II - The Pharaohs of ancient Egypt). He build a great many temples, most of which were designed to overshadow
those that had come before, but despite his building program, he probably remains most famous for the fact that he was Pharaoh during the Exodus (Ramses II - The Pharaohs
of ancient Egypt). Ramses II was the son of Queen Tuy and Sety I, and ascended to the throne at the age of 20; he reigned for 67 years,
making him the second-longest reigning Pharaoh (Ramses II - The Pharaohs of ancient Egypt). He had a harem, but his favorite wife was Nefertari; it is thought that he had
over 100 children (Ramses II - The Pharaohs of ancient Egypt). Under his guidance, Egypt "reached an overwhelming state of prosperity" (Arab, 2003). Ramses was a great warrior, but he
is also known as a builder, because of the temples he constructed throughout Egypt (Arab, 2003). But perhaps even more impressive is the fact that he was "the first king
in history to sign a peace treaty with his enemies, the Hittites, ending long years of wars and hostility" (Arab, 2003). The treaty can still be considered a model for
such documents, even applying the standards used today (Arab, 2003). The war between Egypt and the Hittites has a convoluted history. The Hittites were a "minor nation in Anatolia, who
started to penetrate peacefully east and west through monopolizing political power in the Near East" (Arab, 2003). By the second millennium BC, they had grown to a great power, replacing
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