Egytion Pharaohs HELP!?

Question

I need to know why Cleopatra,Alexandra the great,Tutankhamen and Ramesses the great are famous! but briefly! thanks :)

Answer 1

Cleopatra- known for her romance with Mark Anthony

Alexander the Great- known as the destroyer of the great Persian empire of long ago and also as the youngest military leader that's become quite a legend even today

Rameses the Great- known for oppressing the Hebrews from the Exodus

Answer 2

cleopatra- poisend herself

alexandra- who the fu(k is that

tut- ruled at like 9 yrs old and died at like 12 (cause of death unknown)

ramsies- no clue

Answer 3

In reverse order, Ramses the Great was perhaps the greatest pharaoh of the New Kingdom and governed for about  66 years, leaving to at least his 80s and perhaps into his 90s, which would make him old by any standard.

What he accomplished was a series of military victories and stalemates that ended or at least brought to a tolerable level the constant wars on Egypts eastern Borders. Recall that at one time The Egyptian empire reached up the sea through what we now call Israel/Palestine and Syria/Lebanon.

Ramses lived in the 1200s bce and in 1258 he made the first recorded peace treaty, so he mixed diplomacy with the martial spirit.

Alexander is important because in 332 BC he conquered Egypt without notable resistance. By that time, Egypt had been annexed by the powerful Persian empire and most were glad to be free of the Persians.

Althogh Alexander died early, he established a Greek dynasty of pharaohs called the Ptolemies (after the first of the dynasty to rule. Egypt fell into the Grecian orbit not so much through empire as cultural and other influences - even though the Ptolemians retained wisely virtally all Egyptian practices and customs.

The importance of Cleopatra is that she was the final Ptolemy in the dynasty after 300 years. Egypt was a rich county, but it was no longer a great power that could defend itself against all those who wished its wealth.

After a series of revolts and border threats, Roman officials decided that it had to secure its vital supply of grain.

Cleopatra VII is the only Cleopatra we remember, but some of her ancestors used the same name. She sought to retain Egyptian independence without breaking with Rome.

She actually visited Rome and became briefly the mistress of Julius Caesar, having two children by him. She subsequently return to Egypt where she became involved with Marc Antony, Roman ruler in the east, and she became embroiled in the war of successionto Julius Caesar. Eventually Octavius, i.e. Caesar Agustus, defeated she and Marc Antony at Antium.

That effectively brought an end to the Pharaoh's position as kind of Egypt and turned the country into a Roman province. It assure the grai n supply and the victory was a major feather in the cap for Augustus who during this process abolished the remains of the Roman Republic and established the Roman Empire.

Alexander and Cleopatra represent the beginning and end of Greek influence in Egypt, a period of aobut 300 years. Ramsses the Great represented an acme of Egyptian civilization and power -- but like the kingdom left by Alexander, the New Kingdom did not long survive him (by Egptian terms of thousands of years).

Answer 4

Cleopatra was the last and final Queen of Egypt. As Pharaoh, she consummated a liaison with Gaius Julius Caesar that solidified her grip on the throne, and, after Caesar's assassination, aligned with Mark Antony. Her reign marks the end of the Hellenistic Era and the beginning of the Roman Era in the eastern Mediterranean. She was the last Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.

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Alexander the Great also known as Alexander III, was an ancient Greek king of Macedon (336–323 BC). He was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, he had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks. Following the unification of the multiple city-states of ancient Greece under the rule of his father, Philip II of Macedon

Alexander conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, including Anatolia, Syria, Phoenicia, Judea, Gaza, Egypt, Bactria, and Mesopotamia, and extended the boundaries of his own empire as far as Punjab, India.

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Tutankhamun (1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. Tutankhamun was only eight or nine years old when he became pharaoh, and reigned for approximately ten years, making him eighteen or nineteen years old at death. In historical terms, Tutankhamun's significance stems from his rejection of the radical religious innovations introduced by his predecessor Akenhaten and that his tomb, uniquely, in the Valley of the Kings was discovered almost completely intact -- the most complete ancient Egyptian tomb ever found.

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Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses The Great) was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is often regarded as Egypt's greatest and most powerful pharaoh. He is traditionally believed to have been the Pharaoh of the Exodus. Ramesses II was identified with the pharaoh of whom the Biblical figure Moses demanded his people be released from slavery. Ramesses II fought the Hittites and signed the world's first official peace treaty.

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Answer 5

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