Title: King Ramses the Second Subject: Publisher: Description: Pharaohs Biography Contributors: Effective_date: None Expiration_date: 9998-12-31 00:00:00 Type: Document Format: text/plain Language: Rights: SafetyBelt: 1069434823.86 In ancient Egypt, the Kings are called Pharaohs. People started calling the kings this, because in Egyptian, the word 'Pharaoh' means 'big house'. Some say they called them this, because of the palace. Others say it's because the Egyptians thought the Pharaohs were Horus, the Sky god, in human form who had come to rule over them. This essay is about one particular Pharaoh, called Ramses the Second. He was named after his grandfather, Ramses the Great, who's father was rumored to be Ra,s son. Ra is the Egyptian Sun god. Ramses father's name was Seti. Ramses had one brother, who had been adopted by his sister. Moses was his name. (See other essay) Ramses served as Pharaoh from approx. 1294 to 1224 b.c. He served for sixty-six years and two months. Pepi the First would break that record when he served for ninty-four years. As with all Pharaohs, Ramses has four other names. 'Horus' 'One of two gods' 'One of the reed' and 'Golden Horus'. Ramses loved to keep gold, and even wear it. He even told his taylor to sew his gold onto his clothes. Talk about accessable. He also wore many crowns, jewels, and braclets. Ramses was not favored by his father, Seti. Even though Ramses was kin to the Pharaoh, Seti favored Moses above Ramses. Seti once hinted that Moses, not Ramses would become Pharaoh after him. So Ramses tried to dig up dirt on his brother. When he found out that Moses was in fact a Hebrew, he tattletaled, and Moses fled for his life. Both for this, and other reasons. So Ramses became Pharaoh after Seti died. Rumors say that Ramses murdered Seti, but this isn't a proven fact. Battle of Kadesh The Hittites were a powerful enemy of Ramses and Egypt. Hattusil the Third was leader of the Hittites at the time, and this guy was evil. Ramses wasn't evil per se, he was just power hungry. Ramses wanted to get the land of Syria away from the Hittites. Syria was a wonderful and powerful place, and Ramses wanted it for his great empire. So Ramses gathered four armies of 5,00 men each, and hundreds of chariots. The first day, the army forced the Hittites to retreat from Syria. But on the second day, Ramses went overboard. His armies were forced back that day. Ramses wasn't one to write down his defeats. So he had his scribes tell of a fantastic victory. In two years he wrote a treaty in stone with the Hittites. They got half of Syria, and Egypt got the other half. To show a liftime of peace, Ramses married the Hittite King's daughter. It is said that Ramses had fifty-two children. Others say that he had one hundred. In truth though, he had one hundred ten. The names of his wives are unknown, except for six of them. Five of them were his own daughters. The sixth, was Neppriteri. Some say that Ramses married her, one, because she was a princess, and two, because Moses had wished to marry her, and Ramses found this a way to get back at Moses. No one knows who the Pharaoh was when the Jews were turned into Slaves. Not even the Torah (The Jewish Bible) tells who it was. The makers of the movie, 'The Ten Commandments' were very insistive that it was, in fact, either Seti, or Ramses the Great. Seti had pitied the slaves, and had given them easy workloads, and more food on his son Moses' request. Ramses the Great was said to fear the slaves, and gave them plenty of food and shelter. But Ramses, hated these people. He gave them more work to be done in a limited time, and gave them little food. The time came, when Ramses brother, Moses, returned, and told him to let the Jews go. Ramses laughed at him, and ordered Moses to be removed from his court. Moses came back again and again, handing out curses by the truckload. Ramses finally broke down, and let tham go. But Ramses though better of it. He took his chariots, and went after them. When he and his army got to the Red Sea, however, Ramses saw that Moses had PARTED THE WAVES. An ordinary man would've turned back at this sight, but his hatred for Moses was so great, he went foreward, or rather, he sent his army foreward. The waves collapes on his men. Ramses was the only one of all them who servived. When Ramses died, he was buried in a pyrimid. His tomb was robbed repeatedly, but his remains remaind untouched. The robbers feared that the Pharaoh's rath would be brought upon them. When the ramains were uncovered by scientists in the 1900's. Ramses body has been preserved over the centuries in a French Museum.