Explain why Akhenaten moved his capital to Amarna

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Cheryl E

 

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April 6, 2016

 

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Akhenaten's headship throughout his reign in his foreign and economic policies; and his stances on warfare strongly reflected the morals of Breasted ? for example Breasted asserting that "We have come to speak habitually of an Amarna age, in religion, in life, in art, and this fact in itself is conclusive evidence of the distinctive intellectual attitude of Akhenaten...
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Breasted entertains a variety, however ideologically similar, arguments for Akhenaten's reasons for the move of his capital. One theory presented is that Akhenaten progressed to Amarna to eliminate distractions of other religions, so concentrated in Thebes. Breasted states, "Finding Thebes embarrassed with too many theological traditions, in spite of its prestige and its splendour, Akhenaten forsook it and built a new capital?" This specifically demonstrates Akhenaten's determination to rid his capital of all evidence of other gods and deities ...
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