Pepi II Neferkare

Pepi II Neferkare (c. 2284 BC – c. 2214 BC[2][note 1]) was a king of the Sixth Dynasty in Egypt's Old Kingdom. His second name, Neferkare (Nefer-ka-Re), means "Beautiful is the Ka of Re". He succeeded to the throne at age six, after the death of Nemtyemsaf I.

Pepi II's reign marked a sharp decline of the Old Kingdom. As the power of the nomarchs grew, the power of the king declined. With no dominant central power, local nobles began raiding each other's territories and the Old Kingdom came to an end within a couple of years after the end of Pepi II's reign. This led to the First Intermediate Period of Egypt which lasted from the Seventh Dynasty of Egypt to the Tenth Dynasty of Egypt.

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  3. ^ "VIth Dynasty". Archived from the original on 2009-04-17. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  4. ^ Baud, Michel: "The Relative Chronology of Dynasties 6 and 8" in Ancient Egyptian Chronology (Leiden, 2006) pp. 152–57. ISBN 90-04-11385-1.


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