Queen Nefertiti Research Paper

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Queen Nefertiti was a very powerful woman and she ruled Egypt as queen with her husband Pharaoh Akhenaten from 1353 to 1336 BC. Queen Nefertitit was also known as chief wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten She ruled for 12 years and was queen in the 14th century BC. She was born in Thebes, Egypt and she is said to have died around 1331 BC. She was born around 1370 BC. Nefertiti had six children, all of those children were girls. They were called Ankhesenamun, Meritaten, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Meketaten and Sepepenre. Nefertiti was 15 years old when she got married to Pharaoh Akhenaten. Queen Nefertiti was a great influence over her husband and she helped Akhenaten change the religion of Egypt to monotheism (belief of only one god). Queen Nefertiti was known as “the best known queen of ancient Egypt”. The period of monotheism ended when Tutankhamen became king and changed the religion of Egypt back to multitheism. When one of Nefertiti’s six children died Mekitaten she “disappeared” from the records. A lot of theories have been made of what happened to her but none have been proven. What impact did they have on ancient Egyptian society?

She and her husband changed the religion of the time from multitheism the belief of multiple gods to monotheism the belief of only one god. They believed that the sun god Aten was the most important and greatest god in Egyptian religion and together they believed that Aten should be the only god worshipped. Rather than having the god Amen-Ra who for a long time had been shown as the most important and greatest god. Aten was the sun disc. Nefertiti decided that because she agreed with her husband in changing the religion she changed her name to Nefertiti. Her original name was