Ramses the Warrior Part I

Ramses's hometown is Piramesse. He was the third king of the 19th dynasty. Before he emerged victorious at the Battle of Kadesh, he built many temples, monument and cities.

Ramses accomlished many things in his life time that he took pride and one of them is his victory in the Battle of Kadesh. He engaged in numerous wars and battles to reconquer the lost territories of Egypt but his most famous battle is the Battle of Kadesh. The Hittites wanting too recover Amuru from the Egytians, the Hittites marched into Egypt, Ramses and his army faced them with the same valor.

Ramses did not see the Hittite as a threat. He saw the Hittite army as weak. Ramses was desperate to win the Battle of Kadesh for it will expand the Egytian empire into Syria. Kadesh was a strategic location. Another reason that fueled Ramses to win this Battle was that his father also invaded Kadesh in his during his reign.

Ramses's the Family Guy

According to this website http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/Egypt/save/cramer/cramer.htm, Ramses had about numerous concubines and wives, but his first wife, Queen Nefertari was the one he chose as the "Great Royal Wife" and "Mistress of the Upper and Lower Nile". Ramses married Nefertari before he assumed the Egyptian throne, she bore his first son Amen-Hir-Khopshef(one of his 168 children). Nefertari passed when Ramses was only 48 years old.But it is not as bad as you think. Ramses had a plethora of wives. Some of them were his daughters! In actual fact, his 4th wife was his sister.

Ramses had over a hundred of kids and according to http://homeschooling.about.com/od/favoritehistoricalfigure/p/ramses.htm he had 90 sons after he died. His first thirteen sons he outlived.

Ramses the Builder

Ramses the Great is one of Egypt's greatest warriors. To his people he was the most powerful pharaoh that ever ruled ancient Egypt. He was a great ruler, a strong warrior and a peacemaker . Pharaoh Ramses was born in the 1300 B.C. The exact date is unknown. His was born asUsermaatre-Setepenre Ramses II. He was the second child of Seti the I and Queen Tuya. According to this website, http://touregypt.net/19dyn03.htm , he lived to be 96 years old. He had, it's recorded that he had 200 wives and concubines(some were his own daughters). He had 96 sons and 60 daughters.

Ramses was appointed Prince Regent by his father when he was only 14 years old and he assumed the Egyptian throne in his early twenties.

Others may see him as the greatest pharaoh that ever took the throne of Egypt but to some, Ramses was a tyrannical ruler of Egypt who drove the Jewish slaves in an Exodus that was led by the famous biblical figure Moses. Ramses is probably most famous for the structures that he built during his reign. Most of them still stands today. His most famous structures are the Temple of Abu Simbel, the Rameseum, his part of the Temple of Karnak, and the Temple of Luxor. He built a massive monument of himself in Thebes as well. These great structures were all made to commemorate himself and all his achievements. To depict himself as a God and to showcase his superiority. The process of building these structures required a lot of work which led to the increase of slavery during his reign, growth of his army and then ultimately, the decline of the Egyptian empire.

Ramses had a myriad of spouses but his first and favorite wife was.........to be continued.