Thebes

Thebes had a big role in Ancient Egypt .Thebes had wealth one year and they were broke the next.When you lived in Thebes you never knew what to expect. You had to be prepered for anything to happen. The people stayed there because it was such a great city to grow up in and it had really big temples. Thebes also had great engineers but, I am only going to talk about:Where it is, some about Valley of the kings, the significance in history, about their temples, and Thebes's role in history.


 * //Thebes is located next to the Nile wich makes Thebes a great place to live.The Valley of the Kings is on the other side of the Nile so it is right next to the Nile.//**The Valley of the Kings is a sacred place to keep dead kings and other really important people.

Thebes has a lot of really good temples. A temple built in Thebes during ancient Egypt is one the biggest standing temple in Egypt and it is now called Karnuk. Thebes was known for their great temples. One of the Thebians king named Seti 1 was known to biuld a lot of the temples in Thebes. By the end of the Old Kingdom Amun was adopted as a god. Amuns wife was named Mut and they had a child named Khonsu. Khonsu later became the Moon god.Together they were knowned as Theban Triad.Then Amun became the king of all and stole the treasures in the temples in 665 bc.

Thebes importance was that it was the capital of Egypt for a while. Thebes started out as just a village and then grew into a city when a Theben prince of the Dynasty XI became the king of Egypt in 29 BC. But in the same year the Romans destroyed the city. Then in 1292 Thebes regained most of the destuction that the Romans made when the Theben kings expanded the Egyptian empire in the Dynasty XVIII. From 1539 to 1292 bc.

If you lived in Thebes you had a lot to celabrate and a lot to be ashamed about. You never knew what was going to happen victory or defeat Rich or broke. But everbody had to agree over all Thebes was a great city to live in.


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