Sarah Barnard HIST1108 Professor Murphy October 2014 CREATIVE TITLE Life was going decently well in Egypt under the rule of Amenhotep III‚ however not all good things last forever‚ and when he passed away‚ his oldest living son‚ Amenhotep IV‚ took the throne. His subjects were not prepared for what was to occur in the coming years under the new ruler. The beginning of Amenhotep IV’s reign didn’t hold too many changes but as the years progressed‚ one by one‚ transformations to the Egyptian
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“He who is of service to Aten.” He had six daughters‚ Merytaten‚ Meketaten‚ Ankhesenpaaten‚ Neferneferuaten-tasharit‚ Neferneferure‚ and Sotepenpre. Akhenaten was also suspected of having two more sons‚ Smenkhkare who succeeded him on the thrown‚ and Tutankhamun whom reigned after his brother. Both sons were born from different mothers. His first wife Neferiti‚ who was renamed to Nefernefruaten by the Pharaoh Akhenaten‚ which translated‚ means “beautiful is the beauty of Aten‚” was also known as the
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The Origins of Akhenaten There is much that is known about Akhenaten the heretic pharaoh. More lies in speculation. Since his time‚ the Amarna period is one the ancient Egyptians themselves wished to forget much about Akhenaten remains unknown. What we do know is often confusing‚ different hypothesis piled upon each other make it difficult to distinguish what is fact and what speculation. We do know that Akhenaten‚ or Amenhotep IV‚ was the second son of Amenhotep III‚ an 18th Dynasty pharaoh
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style of depicting people with ideal physiques‚ to a unique and rather unsettling form. He utilized this art to show his objective of carrying out things abnormally. When the new god‚ Aten‚ was first created he was represented as a falcon- headed
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and given the name Tutankhaten‚ meaning "the living image of Aten." At this time‚ ancient Egypt was going through great social and political upheaval. Tutankhaten’s father had forbidden the worship of many gods in favor of worshiping one‚ Aten‚ the sun disc. For this‚ he is known as the "heretic king." Historians differ on how extensive the change from polytheism to monotheism was‚ or whether Akhenaten was only attempting to elevate Aten above the other gods. It does seem‚ however‚ that his intent
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Today there are many different religions around the world all characteristic in their own ways. In the Ancient World however‚ there were fewer monotheistic religions than there are today. Three monotheistic religions in the Ancient World were Judaism‚ Zoroastrianism and Atenism. While all may have one thing in common which is belief in one God they all have different characteristics and they all had a different God they believed in. Judaism is the religion of the Hebrew people. It is one of
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continue that Akhenaten was responsible for this decline.” Akhenaten‚ probably in a change to diminish the administrative influence of the Priests‚ introduced the worship of one God‚ the Aten‚ or Sun disk. This meant that the Pharaoh‚ not the clergy‚ was the personal connection between the population and the Aten which effectively ended the impact of the many temples. 2. Akhenaten decided to change radically the religion of ancient Egypt. In fact‚ it is even possible to speak about a kind of
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Pompeii and Herculaneum Public baths: * The people that had time for leisure‚ a visit to the baths were a regular social event. It was a place where people meet their friends‚ political allies and business associates. * It was in Campania that hot baths (thermae) were first developed. Pompeii had public baths as early as the 4th century BC‚ were as Rome did not have anything similar until the time of Augustus. * The Stabian baths at Pompeii are the earliest. Pompeii came to have many
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commonly known as King Tut. He was born circa 1343BCE and was probably the son of the famous pharaoh Akhenaton and one of Akhenaten’s minor wives‚ either Nebetiah or Beketaten (Edwards 7). His original name‚ Tutankhaten‚ means the "Living Image of Aten". King Tut suffered from many health problems throughout his short life. It is believed that he was born with epilepsy and also inherited Marfan syndrome from his father which was the cause of his elongated head. Tut also had a cleft palate‚ a curved
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showed the worshipping of the sun god Re-Horakhti which will be called Aten later. These carvings was the first indication historians have that Amenhotep IV was creating a new god. The new god Aten had been gaining popularity during his father’s reign. At the third year of his reign‚ he started to announce that Aten is a new god who was a self-created god who renewed himself every day and could not be presented in human form. Aten could only be represented by the symbol of the sun
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