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The Monument is an Antiquity Age 
Culture and Diplomacy 
Building in Civilization VII.
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A monument is a place of memory. It is a site – often without another function – built to frame a collective memory of the past, usually to celebrate it (but not always). Monuments provide a template for the public's reading of the past, normally created by those in power. For instance, Trajan’s Column, completed in 113 CE, depicts a benevolent Roman army moving towards a hostile foreign power and the subsequent rebuilding of the conquered lands; the message is that the army acted with goodwill, an important message for a public wary of a Roman military constantly set to seize power. Monuments erected in the 1920s across the American South purported to mourn the loss of the Civil War, but they contained a subtext about the continuing influence of white supremacy in the region. Monuments can also be read against the grain: Bangkok’s Democracy Monument was built by a fascist architect to celebrate a military regime, but these days it is a focal point for pro-democratic rallies. Like narrative, memory alters and changes, and the meanings of monuments today are rarely those the builders intended.
See also[]
- Monument in other games