Justice is defined as the moral principle determining just conduct. This is based on rational, ethical, religious, equality, and natural law. In the Epic of Gilgamesh it also follows this concept. Kings often were killed by their enemies, were just to their kin gdoms, while others were greedy and spoiled with power. Yet in history kings receive just as much fame. King Akhenaten of Egypt and Gilgamesh of Mesopotamia were powerful and crafty individuals, but their selfishness ruined their chances of being great leaders. History found King Akhenaten to be one of the most famous Pharaohs of ancient Egypt. Son of Amenhotep III and part of a powerful family that had ruled for over two hundred years, since a young age he was destined to rule over
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But in short time he abandoned building of a temple dedicated to Re-Harakhte and in replace began to build one to worship the sun god, Aten, his father's god. Aten derived from the Story of Sinuhe of the 12th dynasty and got its name from the deceased king that was said to have risen as god of the heavens, uniting with the sun disk. Aten became the focal point in the empire becoming the center god. Leading to King Amenhotep IV to change his name to King Akhenaten to show his likeness with the new supreme god. King Akhenaten began taking the names of the old god and their temples and blending them into that of aten. With there only being one god now, that of the sun, night had no god. Night to the people of Egypt became a scary time due to there being no god to watch over them. King Akhenaten's great persuasion is what led him to make so many people follow his lead, "The real revolution implied transformation of thought patterns, in which all the traditional forms were bathed in the glare of a new light which the traditional Egyptians came to find intolerable. Beginning with the change in the king's birth name, from which the name of the (state god) Amun was removed, there was a step-by-step process of elimination. Amun was replaced by Aten, mythical statement by rational statement, many-valued logic by
But in short time he abandoned building of a temple dedicated to Re-Harakhte and in replace began to build one to worship the sun god, Aten, his father's god. Aten derived from the Story of Sinuhe of the 12th dynasty and got its name from the deceased king that was said to have risen as god of the heavens, uniting with the sun disk. Aten became the focal point in the empire becoming the center god. Leading to King Amenhotep IV to change his name to King Akhenaten to show his likeness with the new supreme god. King Akhenaten began taking the names of the old god and their temples and blending them into that of aten. With there only being one god now, that of the sun, night had no god. Night to the people of Egypt became a scary time due to there being no god to watch over them. King Akhenaten's great persuasion is what led him to make so many people follow his lead, "The real revolution implied transformation of thought patterns, in which all the traditional forms were bathed in the glare of a new light which the traditional Egyptians came to find intolerable. Beginning with the change in the king's birth name, from which the name of the (state god) Amun was removed, there was a step-by-step process of elimination. Amun was replaced by Aten, mythical statement by rational statement, many-valued logic by