Essay/Term paper: Ramses the great

Essay, term paper, research paper:  Humanities

"Ramses the Great" In the Egyptian pyramids of Giza,

Ramses the Great ruled as the greatest pharaoh of all times.

Ramses the Great, also known as Ramses II, or just

Ramses, was born in 1304 B.C., and was given the name

the Justice of Ray is Powerful. He had the knowledge of

the kingdom, and became the focus of the court at an early

age. Ramses and his father spent most of their time

together, and at age ten, Ramses became heir to the

thrown. He took the thrown in the year of 1292 B.C. The

pharaoh lived over all other people in the kingdom.

According to historians, the Nile river was the source of life

to the Egyptians. The Nile river provided the Egyptian

people with water, fish, and fertile soil to grow crops on.

The peasant folk in Egypt lived on a diet of wheat bread,

fish, and corn. Also, the death rates there were said to be

very high. When Ramses became pharaoh, he got many

riches. For example, Ramses had as many women as his

heart desired. The women did everything for Ramses,

which includes dancing for him. Ramses II was the most

powerful king in all of ancient Egypt, and his Queens were

his greatest supporters. Ramses had many wives, but he

loved one particular wife the most of all of them. Ramses

the Great was also known for his fighting. In 1275 B.C., he

went into battle with about 2,000 men. It was about noon

on a spring day, and Ramses II was encamped with his

army near the city of Kadesh in Syria. He and his army

were planning a surprise attack on the Hittites. While

Ramses was waiting for his army to assemble, Hittite

chariots showed up out of nowhere and attacked.

Frightened, the Egyptian forces fled and left Ramses the

Great to face the enemy alone. Luckily, he escaped with his

life. Later, Ramses II had scenes from the battle carved on

temple was all over Egypt. According to the carvings,

Ramses prayed to Amon, the chief Egyptian god, to save

him. He said, "My soldiers and charioteers have forsaken

me, but I call and find that Amon is worth more to me than

millions of foot soldiers and hundreds of thousands of

chariots." After that, the carvings show that he rallied his

forces and had victory over the Hittites. Furthermore,

Ramses II raised many monuments to commemorate all of

his victories. Despite their battle, in 1284 B.C., Ramses

and the Hittites signed a treaty that set the borders of two

empires, which ended the costly struggle between them.

Many historians believe that Ramses the Great is the

pharaoh that is written about in the Bible. The story that

they think Ramses might be in, is the one where Moses told

the pharaoh to let his people go. Other people also think

that when Ramses died, he became a god. Ramses spent

most of his 67-year reign reviving the empire and fighting

the Hittites of Asia Minor. Ramses was 92 years old when

he died, and was mummified and put into a temple. The

process of mummification took about 70 days. Three of the

four gods are carved in the side of a large temple, and are

said to guard Ramses. The fourth god was the god of the

underground, so he remains in eternal darkness

underground, on the inside of the temple.