'''Ramses II''' was the last great [[pharaoh]] of the [[New Kingdom]] who ruled for sixty years and struggled to regain the lost territory. He was succeeded by [[Mentuhotep IV]]
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'''Ramses II''' was a very long-lived [[pharaoh]] of the Egyptian kingdom being on the thrown from 1290 to 1224 B.C. and the last ruler of the [[New Kingdom]]. He was the son of [[Seti I]]. He reached an accomodation with the [[Hittites]] of Anatolia after a standoff in the [[Battle of Kadesh]] in Syria. He built on a grand scale throughout [[Egypt]].
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[[Category:Egypt]]
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== Sources ==
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The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History, Bulliet et al, 2005.