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Was Nefertiti a good queen?

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Did people like Nefertiti as a queen? Was she liked? Was she a pharoah?

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  1. I believe archaeologists found her report card from high school.  She was good in math but average every other subject.


  2. Nefertiti (c. 1370 BC - c. 1330 BC) was the Great Royal Wife (or chief consort/wife) of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. She was the mother-in-law and probable stepmother of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Nefertiti may have also ruled as pharaoh in her own right under the name Neferneferuaten briefly after her husband's death and before the accession of Tutankhamun, although this identification is doubted by the latest research.

    It is believed that Nefertiti was active in the religious and cultural changes initiated by her husband (some even maintain that it was she who initiated the new religion). She also had the position as a priest, and she was a devoted worshipper of the god Aten. In the royal religion, the King and Queen were viewed as "a primeval first pair". It was they who worshipped the sun disk named Aten and it was only through them that this god was accessed. Indeed, the remainder of the population was expected to worship the royal family, as the rays of the sun fell and gave life to, it would seem, only the royal pair.

    Nefertiti was a very powerful queen who changed Egypt. The reign of Nefertiti and her husband Akhneton was called the Amarna Revolution because of all the religious, social, and art changes. Nefertiti and Akhenaten where heretics, and they were the first ones to preach monotheism. They built temples for only the sun god, Aten, and made people worship him.

    The people disliked Nefertiti and Akhneton, but they did not show it. Nefertiti was the only one who supported Akhenaten. While Nefertiti and Akhenaten were alive the people did not talk about what they did. When Nefertiti and Akhenaten died what they did was the main subject of gossip. The people learned to deal with Nefertiti but they hated Akhenaten. After Nefertiti and Akhenaten died the people went back to their old religion.

    http://wysinger.homestead.com/nefertiti....

    http://www.akhet.co.uk/nefertit.htm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefertiti

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