In these circumstances Horemheb appointed his vizier Pramesse to succeed him so that on the king’s death in 1320 BC. Pramesse ascended the throne as Ramesses I, thus inaugurating the Nineteenth Dynasty.
The nineteenth dynasty is made famous by the victories of Ramesses I, but already under his successor Sethi I, Egypt appears to have begun to lose some of her outlaying possession acquired by the eighteenth dynasty.
Ramesses II, however, a greater warrior that his father. He first conquered Kush, or Ethiopia; then he led an expedition against the Khitae or Hittites.
Ramesses fought with and conquered the Amorites, Canaanites and other tribes of Palestine and Syria.
List of the King during Nineteenth Dynasty
Ramesses I
Seti I
Ramesses II
Merneptah
Seti II
Amenmesse
Siptah
Twosret
According to the history, that near the end of Merneptah’s reign, corresponding roughly to the end of the Nineteenth Dynasty, Egypt was engulfed in a veritable tide of violence and chaos.
A mysterious group of people, known generally as the ‘Sea People’ or ‘Peoples of the Sea’ descended on Egypt from the north. He also faced invasion of Libvan from the west but eventually defeated them at Pi-yer in the western Delta.
Nineteenth Dynasty XIX (1292–1189 BC)
