Ancient Egypt Webquest - Step 2
Step #2.1 - The Religion of Ancient Egypt
Essential Question: How did religion play a significant role in Ancient Egypt?
Polytheism |
Monotheism |
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| Thousands instead worship all the deities they recognised in ancient Egypt as polytheists. According to them, elements of nature, animal presumed real-life creatures, as well as physical, corporeal, or abstract standards transformed into deities. Worshiped almost the whole time during Ancient Egypt except... | Pharoah Akhenaten during the Amarna Period changed Egyptian religion to the worship of only one god, the Aten or Sun god. It was short-lived and when Akhenaten died the next Pharoah, the famous Tutankhamun reverted the religion back to polytheism. |
