User blog:MilenHD/Season 3 Finale: Ashurbanipal vs Ramesses II

Ashurbanipal: The last great Assyrian king, known for his battlefield prowess.

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Ramesses II: Egypt's greatest pharaoh, who expanded his kingdom's borders.

Who..is..Deadliest?!? To find out, our world class fighters are testing history's most lethal weapons. Using 21st century science, we see what happens, when two warriors go toe to toe. No rules, no safety, no mercy. It's a duel to the death, history will be rewritten, but only one will be crowned the Deadliest Warrior.

Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the ancient Assyrian empire, was famed for his cultural advancements as well as for his military prowess. Amassing a great library at his capital, Nineveh, he provided for the scholars and scientists of his empire. His military was one of the first to experiment with iron-tipped spears and arrows, defeating bronze-armed and armored foes with relative ease. He was very brutal to his defeated foes, torturing survivors and forcing them to live out the remainder of their lives as slaves.

Ashurbanipal inherited several conflicts with neighbouring Egypt and Nubia from his predecessors, and went on to defeat both foes near-simultaneously. He installed puppet rulers to extend his influence across the Nile region, directing operations from his capital in Nineveh. He also defeated a seditious Elamite ruler who rebelled against Assyrian rule, forcing him to commit suicide to escape capture. He also put down domestic unrest during a brief civil war and besieged Babylon, taking the city in 648 BC. At the time of Ashurbanipal's death in 627 BC, he ruled the largest land empire in existence.

Ashurbanipal fought for Assyria with: Short Range= Sappara Mid Range= Assyrian Spear Long Range= Composite Bow Special= Assyrian Dagger
 * Weight: 4 pounds
 * Length: 3 feet
 * Iron
 * Weight: 3 pounds
 * Length: 6 feet
 * Iron tip, wooden handle
 * Weight: 3 pounds
 * Length: 4 feet
 * Range: 400 feet
 * Horn, sinew
 * Iron arrows
 * Weight: 3 pounds
 * Length: 1.5 feet
 * Iron

Ramesses II
Ramesses II, referred to as Ramesses the Great, was the third Egyptian pharaoh (reigned 1279 BC – 1213 BC) of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire. His successors and later Egyptians called him the "Great Ancestor." Ramesses II led several military expeditions into the Levant, re-asserting Egyptian control over Canaan. He also led expeditions to the south, into Nubia, commemorated in inscriptions at Beit el-Wali and Gerf Hussein.

At age fourteen, Ramesses was appointed Prince Regent by his father Seti I. He is believed to have taken the throne in his late teens and is known to have ruled Egypt from 1279 BC to 1213 BC for 66 years and 2 months, according to both Manetho and Egypt's contemporary historical records. He was once said to have lived to be 99 years old, but it is more likely that he died in his 90th or 91st year. If he became Pharaoh in 1279 BC as most Egyptologists today believe, he would have assumed the throne on May 31, 1279 BC, based on his known accession date of III Shemu day 27. Ramesses II celebrated an unprecedented 14 sed festivals (the first held after thirty years of a pharaoh's reign, and then every three years) during his reign—more than any other pharaoh. On his death, he was buried in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings; his body was later moved to a royal cache where it was discovered in 1881, and is now on display in the Cairo Museum.

The early part of his reign was focused on building cities, temples and monuments. He established the city of Pi-Ramesses in the Nile Delta as his new capital and main base for his campaigns in Syria. This city was built on the remains of the city of Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos when they took over, and was the location of the main Temple of Set. He is also known as Ozymandias in the Greek sources, from a transliteration into Greek of a part of Ramesses's throne name, Usermaatre Setepenre, "Ra's mighty truth, chosen of Ra".

Ramesses defeated the Hittites with his arsenal of deadly weapons: Short Range= Khopesh Mid Range= Javelin Long Range= Hyksos Bow Special= Mace
 * Weight: 4 pounds
 * Length: 3 feet
 * Bronze
 * Weight: 4 pounds
 * Length: 4 feet
 * Range: 50 feet
 * Bronze tip, wooden handle
 * Weight: 3 pounds
 * Length: 5 ffet
 * Range: 500 feet
 * Wood, sinew
 * Bronze arrows
 * Weight: 4.5 pounds
 * Length: 2 feet
 * Bronze head, wooden handle

My Edges
Short: Edge Ashurbanipal: Both are the same weapon, but Ashurbanipal's is made of iron.

Mid: Edge Ashurbanipal: The spear is both made of better materials and easier to use than the javelin, who needs to be thrown.

Long: Edge Ramesses: His bow has longer range and is even deadlier on chariot. Also Ramesses was a great archer also.

Special: Edge Ramesses: His mace is longer and is more devastating than the dagger.

X-Factors
Armor: Ramesses 75, Ashurbanipal 78: Both have bronze armor, and it doesn't matters if it's scales for Ramesses or lamellar for Ashurbanipal. Ashurbanipal has a slight edge because he has both helmet and his wooden shield is stronger than Ramesses cow hide shield.

Leadership: Ramesses 90, Ashurbanipal 75: Ramesses was a strong, capable and fair leader, he was disciplined and his people loved him. He ruled  fair to both his own people and to his conquered foes. Ashurbanipal cruel, merciless and warmongering personalitymade him a symbol of fear and terror in the Ancient World and his men.

Brutality: Ramesses 77, Ashurbanipal 96: Ramesses may have shown brutality on the battlefield, but he did not took part in sadistic violence. Ashurbanipal is very different story, he treated people like dogs, he hunted lions for sport and killed them with his sword, he was known for flaying his enemies alive too.

Tactics: Ramesses 89, Ashurbanipal 78: Both were capable combatants, but Ashurbanipal was using mostly fear and using siege engines in his tactics. Ramesses revolutionasied the Egyptian warfare, adding new weapons, chariot archery was a thing in his campaign, heck he even used lion in one of his battles against the Hettites and the battle of Kadesh proves him as a better tactician.