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Ramses the Great is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.

Scheidel, Walter 2003. The Greek demographic expansion: models and comparisons. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 123, Issue. , p. 120.