Name: Pharaoh Akhenaten
Place: Egypt, Africa
Time: ~1370 – 1334 B.C.
Pharaoh Akhenaten took over a very prosperous, intellectually and
artistically live kingdom from his father, Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Pharaoh Akhenaten was married to the legendary Queen Nefertiti
and was one of the first rulers to direct his people towards the worship of only one God, Aten. Pharaoh Akhenaten was known as a very
peaceful ruler who built his own city and wrote religious hymns for Aten. In fact, Akhenaten’s Hymn to Aten is etched in the tomb
of his chief minister Ay.