Total War: Pharaoh - Merneptah, the Strong Bull

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The Legacy and the Loss. As Total War: Pharaoh begins, Egypt lives under the rule of MERNEPTAH. A mighty pharaoh, Merneptah has accomplished much in peace and war. But the King is aging, his journey will soon end, and his legacy will be complicated… Preview and purchase Total War: Pharaoh at https://pharaoh.totalwar.com/. Music in all episodes by Richard Beddow © Creative Assembly 2023. See the History of Egypt Podcast on all podcasting apps and at www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Select references: K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated: Translations Volume IV: Merenptah & The Late Nineteenth Dynasty (2003). C. Manassa, The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah: Grand Strategy in the 13th Century BC (2003). D. B. Redford, ‘The Ashkelon Relief at Karnak and the Israel Stela’, Israel Exploration Journal 36 (1986), 188—200. F. Servajean, Mérenptah et la fin de la XIXe dynastie (2014). I. Singer, ‘Merneptah’s Campaign to Canaan and the Egyptian Occupation of the Southern Coastal Plain of Palestine in the Ramesside Period’, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (1988), 1—10. F. J. Yurco, ‘Merenptah’s Canaanite Campaign’, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 23 (1986), 189—215. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Those who seize power are distant to fall to violence, but those who inherit power, they
0:19.3	have true legitimacy.
0:21.6	Welcome to the history of Egypt podcast and Total War Pharaoh.
0:26.0	Today, we meet the man who rules Egypt when the events of this game begin.
0:31.7	The great Pharaoh, Mary Ni Patah, is an elderly man, but his rule is strong and his legacy
0:38.8	will shine for millennia to come.
0:48.5	Mary Ni Patah came to power around 1224 BCE.
0:53.4	He was the son and heir of King Usur Mahatra, Ramesis II.
0:59.8	Mary Ni Patah was not the eldest son of Ramesis, more like the eldest surviving.
1:05.8	The prince Mary Ni Patah had been born to Ramesis II Major wife, a queen named Iset Novret
1:12.7	or Isis the beautiful.
1:14.6	But Manaptah was not the first son of the king, nor the second, third, fourth, heck, he
1:21.4	wasn't even in the top 10.
1:24.2	Prince Manaptah was the 13th son of King Ramesis II.
1:29.8	Ramesis, legendarily, had many wives and fathered dozens of sons and daughters during his
1:35.5	long reign.
1:37.2	King Ramesis ruled Egypt for more than 65 years.
1:41.8	On the one hand, that was a fantastic achievement, a demonstration of longevity, the obvious favor
1:47.9	of the gods, and the supremacy of Egypt as a home and a kingdom.
1:53.3	It also had its troubles.
1:55.7	Because Ramesis ruled so long, all of the sons whom he originally groomed for power,
2:01.9	they pre-deceased their father.
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