Egyptian Pyramids Research Paper

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Ryann Suero
Ms. Majtka
English 8 A
March, ,2018

Have you ever wanted to learn about Egypt history and maybe about how pyramids were built? Well I may be able to help you with that. There thousands of things that we will learn about together.

Many popular beliefs are of pyramids being built by hybrid giants called Nephilim. The pyramids where built in Egypt in 2640 BC. A big theory of how the pyramids were built was by millions of slaves to build the pyramids the slaves were owned by merciless pharaohs. The ancient pyramids were The ancient Egyptians built pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and their queens. The pharaohs were buried in pyramids of many different shapes and sizes.

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During the rule of Akhenaton, his wife Nefertiti played an important religious role in the monotheistic (belief that there is only one God) cult of the sun god Aton. Late Stone Age communities northeastern Africa traded hunting for agriculture and made early advances that later made development of Egyptian art, technology, politics and religion. Around 3400 B.C., two different kingdoms were created called the red land and the white land from the north to the south along, stretching from Atfih to Gebel es-Silsila. A southern king, Scorpion, made the first attempts to conquer the northern kingdom around 3200 …show more content…

The country went on to make the world’s first great empire, going from Nubia to the Euphrates River in Asia. The controversial Amenhotep IV (c. 1379-1362), of the late 18th dynasty, undertook a religious revolution, getting rid of the priesthoods which were dedicated to Amon-Re (a combination of the local Theban god Amon and the sun god Re) they forced all who believed in Aton to believe in another sun god. Renaming himself Akhenaton, he built a new capital in Middle Egypt called Amarna. After Akhetaton died all her ideals about monotheistic sun god Aton were lost and they went back to believing in a multitude of

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