How Did Tutankhamun Influence Ancient Egypt

Like all the pharaohs in new kingdom Egypt, Tutankhamun was worshipped as a living god. He had immense power and wealth plus great responsibilities, including praying to the gods, setting out the laws and taxes or controlling the army in Egypt. Also, Tutankhamun reinstated the older religion in Egypt. Above all, the pharaoh had to maintain harmony and order and hold the regions of upper and Lower Egypt together.

Any pharaoh in new kingdom Egypt had to do many rituals since he was basically Egypt's religious leader. The pharaoh of Egypt made offerings to gain the gods favour for Egypt in their temples, so there would be good luck for everyone. The pharaoh would also use his divine powers in ceremonies to bring the annual Nile floods and water the land for crops so that the land would be fertile so food will be abundant for everyone. Furthermore, he had a duty to build monuments which would please the gods so the gods wouldn't get angry and place bad luck on the Egyptian kingdom. There was a model boat found in the tomb, where real boats were used to carry gods on their journeys. Also it was good use for the pharaoh to do his checking around the Nile, and also great use to transport his body when he dies and the model boat would serve the same purpose in the afterlife.
The pharaoh would make all the laws, set the level of taxes, and decided on Egypt's foreign policy.
In theory, he personally supervised all the affairs of state. In this case, since Tutankhamun was only nine when he was instated as a pharaoh, he had advisors to help him deal with businesses like these, where mostly his chief minister Ay did all the work. There are also wall paintings on Tutankhamun's wall, where there is a picture of two officials accompanying the chief minister called viziers to rule upper and Lower Egypt. They supervised all the taxes, laws and construction since obviously Tutankhamun was too young to do all of these duties by
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Pharaohs were also trained as warriors and traditionally led Egypt's armies in battle. On a box from his tomb, Tutankhamun is shown defeating the Syrians and Nubians, but there is no evidence that he ever thought in real life, and probably was unlikely since Tutankhamun was a kid, he wouldn't be fighting in a war. In Tutankhamun's tomb, there were 6 golden chariots shown, where there was also paintings on the walls of Tutankhamun leading an army against the Syrians hoping the leave an impression that Tutankhamun was a great army general as were other pharaohs were supposed to be, but of course Tutankhamun wasn't.

Additionally, more evidence from Tutankhamun's tomb to reinforce the idea of his being a warrior is his sandals. These sandals were decorated with Syrians and Nubians captives on it, so as he walked out, all his enemies would be crushed underfoot.

A pharaoh began to build his tomb early in his career, because it was important to build it with lots of riches, so in the afterlife the pharaoh would take it in the afterlife to enjoy life and because a pharaoh needed the best of the best, which all of this, took ages to build. Tutankhamun died young, and his tomb wasn't finished. He was hurriedly buried in someone else's tomb, presumably Ay's tomb.

Another piece of evidence proving Tutankhamun's role as a pharaoh was a commemorative stela which was set up in the temple of Karnak which records some of Tutankhamun's activities and provided a brief description of the state of Egypt at the time of his succession. The gods had deserted Egypt and the prayers of the people had gone unanswered. Tutankhamun however, claims in the stela that Tutankhamun immediately took steps to remedy this depressed state of affairs. He made costly golden images of Amun and of other gods; he rebuilt or restored their sanctuaries and temples and reestablished their priesthoods. The worship of Amun was restored to its former position and the worship of all other gods was reinstated and Tutankhaten's name was changed to Tutankhamun.

It is probably obvious that the role of any pharaoh in new kingdom Egypt was to make offerings to gods to bring good luck to Egypt and the lands, control the financial status of Egypt, protect Egypt from foreign enemies, and overall control Egypt at a steady level. In this case, since Tutankhamun was too young to do most of these tasks that a pharaoh was supposed to do, he had seniors to help him in these tasks.