Chapter XXVII

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And the reason why pure royal blood is needed is because at that time, the common people in Egypt began to be more and more influenced by the black people in sub-Saharan Africa, and they became more and more black, and the Egyptian royal family was more pure yellow and white, so the pure royal blood was just to avoid being influenced by the black race. This has similarities with the caste system in India.

Amenhotab III was the most wealthy pharaoh of ancient Egypt. Its ruling dynasty is regarded as the heyday of the Eighteenth Dynasty. At that time, Egypt remained the same as it was under Thutmose III, stretching from Syria in the north to the Fourth Falls in Lower Nubia in the south.

Amenhoteb III developed trade and diplomatic ties with many countries, including Babylon, Mitanni and Cyprus. Many of his wives were foreign princesses, and most of their marriages were diplomatic in nature.

Amenhotep III carried out large-scale construction projects and was hailed as the "Pharaonic Artist". His buildings included the Serabyum in Sakkara, the temple in Luxor, the annex temple in Karnak, the palace and lake for his own amusement, and the mausoleum for himself in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of Thebes. He was probably the single pharaoh with the most statues erected. In addition, he opened many glass, faience and gesture workshops in Egypt.

There is only one record of Amenhotep III's military activity, which was fought against the Nubians in the early years of his reign, probably to secure the Egyptian gold shipping routes from the Nubian region.

At the end of his reign, Egypt's grip on its Asian possessions showed signs of loosening.

Amenhoteb IV, reigned 18 years, 1385-1367 BC. Born in 1397 BC, his mother was Tiyi, queen of Amenhotab III.

Wife: Nefertiti, Kia

Son: Tutankhamun

Daughters: Myrit Aten, Marquette Aten, Anhosenamon, Nefer Nefru Aten, Nefer Nefru La, Setep En-La, Barquette Aten

Amenhoteb IV was well-read and well-read since he was a child, but he was stubborn and stubborn, and he couldn't let go of a single reason, and a few horses couldn't pull it back.

Before he became Pharaoh, he was dissatisfied with the way the monks of the Temple of Amun held each other, and he had long been aware of the arrogance of the monks in the area, so he was determined to reduce the power of the monks in the Temple of Amun.

In 1385 BC, Amenhotab IV, the second son of Amenhotab III, succeeded to the throne of Egypt and was the tenth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt.

Strangely, Amenhoteb III did not choose his eldest son Thutmose to succeed him, but chose Amenhoteb IV, who was only 12 years old at the time, and continued to hold power and govern together as the emperor.

Its queen Nefertiti was originally Egypt's Asian ally, the little princess of Mitanni, whose real name was Tadu Paba. Nefertiti means "beauty from afar".

At the age of 15, he married Amenhotep III, Ekhnatun's father, but two years after the marriage, he was succeeded by Amenhoteb IV, who remarried Nefertidi to his second son, Amenhoteb IV, to take care of his daily life.

When Amenhotab IV ascended the throne, he appointed a new number of ministers, replaced new prime ministers, and promoted some junior officials from among the lower ranks, making them the pillars of his own power. For example, Naganomiya Ayi, who is in charge of court ceremonies.

At that time, the monotheistic ideas of the Aryans in India and Elamite began to be popular in Western Asia, and Nefertiti was strongly influenced by this idea, and Amenhoteb IV, who was only 12 years old, was influenced by the ideas of 17-year-old Nefertiti and decided to take the approach of resuming the worship of the sun god Ra to resist the god Amun, but since the god Ra had become Amun-la with the god Amun, he decided to introduce the worship of the god Atun.

Born into a family of small local slave owners, Ayibn initially served as a junior scribe to the royal family. Usually he is cautious and cautious, only obeying the orders of his boss, but at the same time, he sees six ways, listens to all directions, and peeps into the opportunity to be promoted and invited.

When he learned of the new pharaoh's intention to worship the god Atun, he racked his brains to write a sensual ode to Atun to the pharaoh.

Amenhoteb and his wife, Queen Nefertiti, immediately promoted Ayi to the position of head of court ceremonies, and later to the position of prime minister.

Subsequently, Amenhoteb ordered Amun to replace Amun as the supreme god of the country, and ordered all his people to worship the new god, thus announcing the beginning of a very significant religious reform in Egyptian history.

In the early stages of Atun worship, Atun was a "polytheistic religion with a single main god" that regarded Atun as the supreme god, but at the same time did not deny the divinity of other gods, similar to the supreme god of Amun-ra, and did not conflict with traditional Egyptian religion.

But by 1382 BC, Amenhoteb IV was 15 years old. The worship of Atun transitioned to monotheism after only three years, that is, there was no true god except Atun, and it was the first monotheistic religion clearly recorded in the annals of history.

In the Pantheon exhibition, the most important sun god is Ra, who was the main god of the Old Kingdom. Ra later merged with Horus, the symbol of the royal power of the pharaoh's family, and Amun, the local god of Thebes, who had risen dramatically with the rise of Thebes as the capital of Egypt. This merger was rather abrupt, but it was accepted by the ancient Egyptians.

Amenhotep IV simplified the system and created the first monotheistic religion in Egypt by declaring that the visible image of the sun was itself the only god.

The worship of Atun (the radiance of the sun) is essentially the worship of natural phenomena and has the characteristics of simple materialism that admires nature. Originally an ancient but less important Egyptian deity, the local deity of the city of Heliopoli, Atun was now elevated to the most prominent position by the pharaohs.

Some researchers understand the Athonism as a naturalism with naïve scientific ideas, based on the recognition of the fact that the energy of the sun is the ultimate source of energy for all life on Earth.

Why Amenhotep IV carried out such a drastic Reformation is a subject that researchers have been exploring. It is more plausible that Pharaoh wanted to fight against the Amun priesthood of Thebes by reviving the worship of the ancient god Ra and degrading the status of Amun. In this way, his Reformation was in fact a political struggle within the ruling class under the cloak of the Reformation. Pharaoh wanted to centralize power in order to curb the tendency of the increasingly powerful group of priests to rival the royal family since the establishment of the New Kingdom.