Question

Menes, the first Egyptian Pharaoh, is known for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: a. uniting the Upper and Lower Kingdoms c. being the founder of the first Egyptian dynasty b. trying to change Egypt’s polytheistic religion to a monotheistic religion d. having eight male heirs that all ruled as king

Answer 1

Menes ( c. 3150 BC ) was a king of ancient Egypt. He united Upper and Lower Egypt and he was the founder of the First Dynasty, He also established the famous capital of Memphis. Akhenaten ( or Echnaton ) known at the start of his reign as Amenhotep IV was Egyptian Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty ( 1319-1336 BC ). Akhenaten was ruler who tried to change traditional Egyptian polytheism and to introduce the worshiping of one God - the Aten ( the disk of the Sun ). Answer: B ) trying to change Egypt`s polytheistic religion to a monotheistic religion.