Question

The outcast of his family, _______________ is an important figure from Egyptian history. Once he gained status as a pharaoh, he wiped out the long-lasting, traditional plytheistic order or religion and introduced Egypt (for a short time) to a monotheistic order based on the Sun-disk god, Atun.

Answer 1

Akhenaten (born Amenhotep IV). He introduced Atenism — a short-lived monotheistic worship of the sun-disk Aten — moved the capital to Akhetaten (Amarna), and attempted to suppress the old polytheistic cults.