What was king akhenaten famous for?

Answer 1

INFAMOUS in fact. He was king Tutankhamun's father. he was infamous for making the country of Egypt into a monothesitic worship. Instead of having their many gods Akhenaten made the people worship the sun god Amun.

Answer 2

Akhenaten, one of many ancient Egyptian pharaohs, is perhaps best renowned for his loyalty to one deity at a time when the rest of the world, by and large, worshipped several gods. He is certainly the only one of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs to promote a monotheistic religion. This was not to occur again until the Roman Empire took control of Egypt and Christianity was instituted as the official religion

Answer 3

Akhenaten is all things was a fanatical lunatic, to some he comes across as a strange, eccentric young man whose behavior was strongly influenced by his mother, to others he was a Christ-like visionary and a mentor of Moses, and to still others he was simply someone who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and who really had nothing to do with the dramatic reformations that went on during his reign. Akhenaten's name was originally Amenhotep IV. The nature of Akhenaten's revolution is well established--he overthrew Egyptian polytheism in favor of the worship of a single god, Aten--but the reason behind it is still unknown. When historians first began to study Akhenaten carefully, in the late 1800s, the first thing that naturally came to everyone's mind was that Akhenaten was divinely inspired. However, it does not seem likely that Akhenaten simply decided out of the blue to make such a major change. Many early historians, determined to link Akhenaten's religion somehow to the Israeli religion, said that he was inspired by Moses (Redford, p. 4, 1984).

Answer 4

Akhenaten was famous for changing the religion in ancient Egypt from many gods, to 1 god. Of course, the priests didn't like the changes so they resisted them as long as they could.