Fri., 11/22

Do Now—Exercise 21C: Put the names of the Amarna rulers provided to you in second column. In the third column, write one complete sentence about each of them. Model answers:

Read: p. 246, ¶ 1 – p. 249, ¶ 1 HW—Exercise 21B—Model answer: A Dynasty 18 pharaoh in the late 15th c. B.C., Tutankhamun married his half-sister, Ankhesenamun, after many in the royal family fell victim to plague. Since the plague was interpreted as Amun’s vengeance against Akhenaten’s heresy, the royal couple replaced their Aten names with Amun names and put an end to Aten worship. After Tutankhamun died at age nineteen, Ankhesenamun attempted to marry a Hittite prince, but was forced to marry her grandfather, Ay, instead. When Ay died, General Horemheb took the throne, memorialized his allegiance to Amun, and ordered a damnatio memoriae of the Amarna rulers and their despised Aten cult. Howard Carter discovered the intact tomb of “King Tut” in 1922. Turn in your Field Notes No. 21 before the Thanksgiving weekend (i.e., by Wednesday, 11/27).