Quiz: Ramesses II

When did Ramesses II die?

• About 1213 BC, aged about ninety.
• About 1750 BC.
• 9 September 1976, Beijing
• 27 April 1937, Rome.

When did Ramesses II reign?

• About 1279 to 1213 BC, 66 years.
• About 1479 to 1425 BC.
• About 1792 to 1750 BC, sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon.
• 27 BC to 14 AD as Augustus.

What realm did Ramesses II rule?

• New Kingdom Egypt.
• The Achaemenid Persian Empire at its full extent.
• An empire from Greece to India, divided after his death among his generals.
• The Achaemenid Persian Empire.

What is Ramesses II known for?

• The Battle of Kadesh, about 1274 BC, and the Egyptian Hittite peace treaty.
• The Code of Hammurabi, inscribed on a diorite stele now in the Louvre.
• The Battle of Megiddo, about 1457 BC, and the Annals carved at Karnak.
• Naming water as the first principle of all things. Herodotus reports that he predicted the solar eclipse of 585 BC.

True or false: Pharaoh from about 1279 to 1213 BC, remembered as Ramesses the Great for a reign of 66 years.

• True
• False