Question

When Akhnaton reformed Egyptian religious practices, Egyptians Select one: a. ceased to worship the pharaoh. b. were forced to worship Amon-Re. c. became monotheistic. d. continued to worship the pharaoh. e. were encouraged to worship Nefertiti.

Answer 1

The correct answer is letter D

Explanation: The idea was revolutionary: for the first time in history, a pharaoh wanted to replace the pantheon of Egyptian gods with a single deity - the sun god, or Aton, the creator of all.

The proposal was considered a heresy. But since Pharaoh was considered a god on earth, he had unlimited powers to modify whatever he wanted. He decreed that the 2,000 gods that had been worshiped in Egypt for over a millennium were extinct. Their human and animalistic appearances have been replaced by the abstract form of the sun and its rays.