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For Rameses II, who was in just in his 5th year of his reign, Kadesh was a test that he had to pass to gain the respect of the Egyptian aristocracy.

For Rameses II, who was in just in his 5th year of his reign, Kadesh was a test that he had to pass to gain the respect of the Egyptian aristocracy.

In 1258 B.C. Egypt and Hatti signed the world's first known peace treaty [http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/egyptian-hittite-peace-treaty.htm] (a copy of which hangs on the walls of the UN headquarters), which also established an alliance against Assyria.

In 1258 B.C. Egypt and Hatti signed the world's first known peace treaty [http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/egyptian-hittite-peace-treaty.htm] (a copy of which hangs on the walls of the [[United Nations]] headquarters), which also established an alliance against Assyria.

The two states coexisted peacefully for seventy years, by then Hatti had been weakened by Assyria and was sacked by the "Sea Peoples" a loose coalition of which the [[Philistines]] were a member.

The two states coexisted peacefully for seventy years, by then Hatti had been weakened by Assyria and was sacked by the "Sea Peoples" a loose coalition of which the [[Philistines]] were a member.