–Known for conducting many wars and great building enterprises. It is possibly the memory of his reign which is reflected in the biblical description of cruel slavery: “Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens, and they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Ramses…and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field” (Exodus, 1:11, 14).