Akhenaten & co.

Question 1

Born/ Died?

Answer 1

Born: 1380 BC. Died: 1336 BC

Question 2

Parents?

Answer 2

Amenhotep III and Tiye

Question 3

Birth name?

Answer 3

Amenhotep IV

Question 4

Lived during?

Answer 4

Amarna Period (Egyptian Golden Age)

Question 5

Wives?

Answer 5

Nefertiti (main w/ 6 daughters), Kiya (possibly w/ Tut)

Question 6

Crowned king at?

Answer 6

Temple of Amun in Karnak

Question 7

New city?

Answer 7

Akhentaten (horizon of Aten). Moved from Thebes (centre of Amun worship)

Question 8

What happened in 9th year?

Answer 8

Created new religion. One god, the sun.

Question 9

Aten?

Answer 9

(The actual sun). “Midday sun”. Depicted as sun w/ rays w/ hands holding ankhs.

Question 10

Who running country?

Answer 10

Ay + Horemheb.

Question 11

Smenkhare?

Answer 11

Co-regent appointed by Ay.

Question 12

“Amarna letters”?

Answer 12

Letters from foreign “great kings”, complaining, asking for aid.

Question 13

After death?

Answer 13

Polytheism/old temples + cults restored. Tut king. Smenkhare, Aten and traces of Akhenaten gone.

Question 14

What’s Akhenaten mean?

Answer 14

Servant of the Aten.

Question 15

What’s Amun mean?

Answer 15

Rising Sun.