Around 1380 B.C., the young pharaoh Amenhotep IV came to rule. He soon came to think that the greatest god was the sun, and he called this god Aton. He was disregarding the priests of Amon-Re. Eventually Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaton. A

khenaton means “Pleasing Aton.” Later on, Akhenaton came to proclaim that Aton was the only god, and concealed all the worship of other gods. One of the most shocking moves of this young Pharaoh was when he removed the name of Amon-Re from all public inscriptions. The priests of Amon-Re reacted very strongly toward these religious changes. They struggled to over come this change, but eventually won. Akhenaton’s successor, the young Tutankhaton soon came around and replaced Aton’s name with Amon-Re on all the public inscriptions.

During the Old and New Kingdom, the Egyptian empires were entirely strong and powerful, but when the Middle Kingdom came around, the Pharaohs got weaker, and as too did the empire. When Ahmose became the first

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