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Eternal Egypt: Khufu

For Students 9th - 10th
Khufu, the second king in the Fourth Dynasty, was the son of King Senefru and Queen Hetepheres. Khufu ordered the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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Eternal Egypt: Khafra

For Students 9th - 10th
King Khafra is the fourth king of the Fourth Dynasty and the owner of the Great Sphinx and the second pyramid on the famous Giza Plateau.
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Eternal Egypt: Sahure

For Students 9th - 10th
King Sahure succeeded to the throne after Userkaf, the founder of the Fifth Dynasty. We know that he sent a naval expedition to Byblos. Moreover, Sahure probably sent a military campaign to fight the Libyans. It is possible that Sahure...
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Eternal Egypt: Piankhi

For Students 9th - 10th
Piankhi (or Piye) of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty ascended the Nubian (Kushite) throne as the successor of Kashta. He recorded his victories on a stela that is preserved in the Egyptian Museum.
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Eternal Egypt: Menkaure

For Students 9th - 10th
Menkaure succeeded his father Khafra. He is the builder of the third pyramid at Giza.
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Eternal Egypt: Khasekhem

For Students 9th - 10th
Khasekhem was the last pharaoh of the second dynasty, he ruled from 2734 to 2707 B.C. His reign is particularly important because he was the last ruler from Abydos, in Upper Egypt. His successor king Djoser who was perhaps his son,...
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Eternal Egypt: King Teti

For Students 9th - 10th
Founder of the Sixth Dynasty, King Teti ruled from Memphis, as his predecessors had, for a relatively long and successful period. His cult continued long after his death.
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Eternal Egypt: Merenptah

For Students 9th - 10th
Merenptah was the thirteenth son of Ramesses the Second. He ruled Egypt for about ten years. He erected a temple at Thebes and other structures at Heliopolis, Hermopolis, and Memphis.
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Eternal Egypt: Neferefre

For Students 9th - 10th
Neferefre was the fifth of nine kings in the Fifth Dynasty, which was notable for the dominance of the cult of the sun god Re, and for the building of sun temples near the small royal pyramids at Abu Sir.
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Eternal Egypt: Nebuchadnezzar

For Students 9th - 10th
Nebuchadnezzar is considered one of the most important Kings of Babylon. He fought the Egyptians and attacked Syria. He besieged Jersualem and captured its inhabitants twice.
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Eternal Egypt: Seti the First

For Students 9th - 10th
After the death of Ramesses the First, his son, Seti the First, became king and ruled Egypt for about 16 years. He shared in the construction of the great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak, the temple of Abydos, and his mortuary temple at Qurnah....
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Eternal Egypt: Ptolemy the Third

For Students 9th - 10th
Ptolemy the Third, son of Ptolemy the Second and Arsinoe the First, ruled Egypt from 246-221 BC. He plunged immediately into a war with Syria. The Egyptian king won a brilliant if impermanent victory.
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Eternal Egypt: Ptolemy the Second

For Students 9th - 10th
Ptolemy the Second ascended the throne in 285 BC and reigned with his father until 283 BC, when he became the sole ruler of Egypt. He introduced the monopoly system in various fields such as agriculture and building projects. He also...
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Eternal Egypt: Ramesses the Fifth

For Students 9th - 10th
Ramesses the Fifth was a son of Ramesses the Fourth and reigned for only about four years. He prepared a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, where he was buried. However, the tomb was unfinished at the time of his death.
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Eternal Egypt: Ramesses the First

For Students 9th - 10th
Ramesses the First was the founder of the Nineteenth Dynasty. Unfortunately, Ramesses only ruled for two years because of his advanced age when he succeeded to the throne.
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Eternal Egypt: Ramesses the Third

For Students 9th - 10th
King Ramesses the Third was the last great king in the New Kingdom. He defeated the Libyans and the Sea Peoples. He made new structures at Luxor, Karnak, Pi-Ramesse, Heliopolis, Memphis, Hermopolis and Abydos and in Nubia and Syria....
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Eternal Egypt: Senusert the First

For Students 9th - 10th
King Senusert the First was the second king of the Twelfth Dynasty. He built his pyramid and funerary temple at Lisht, near Faiyum, and also built an elegant bark-station, or shrine, for Amun-Re at Karnak.
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Eternal Egypt: Senusert the Third

For Students 9th - 10th
Senusert the Third ruled the country after his father, Senusert the Second, for about 19 years as the fifth pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty. He had his pyramid built at Dahshur.
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Eternal Egypt: Amenhotep the Third

For Students 9th - 10th
Amenhotep the Third was father to King Akhenaten and married a non-royal woman named Tiye, who had great influence on her husband. During his long peaceful reign, Egyptian art reached its highest glory. Some of Egypt's most spectacular...
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Eternal Egypt: Ramesses the Fourth

For Students 9th - 10th
Ramesses the Fourth was the son and the successor of the great king Ramesses the Third and he was considered to have been the first of a series of increasingly weak rulers.
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Eternal Egypt: Ramesses the Second

For Students 9th - 10th
Ramesses the Second ruled Egypt for about 67 years during which he conducted campaigns against Libya, Nubia, and the famous battle with the Hittites. Ramesses and the Hittites signed the first peace treaty known in history. He erected...
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Eternal Egypt: Sheshonq the Second

For Students 9th - 10th
Sheshonq the Second was the third king in the Twenty-Second Dynasty. He started his life as a High Priest of Amun where he succeeded his uncle Iuput. In 890 BC, he ruled as a co-regent with his father, Oserkon the First.
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Eternal Egypt: Montuhotep the Second

For Students 9th - 10th
During the First Intermediate Period, the unification of Egypt was broken for the first time and the rule of the country was divided between two main ruling houses until Montuhotep the Second succeeded in reuniting the country. Thebes...
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