Kurnick 2020

Vocab

==Donald Trump==-Needs no explanation

==Akkadians==-The people who lived in Mesopotamia between 2300 and 2150 BC. They created bronze statues of one of their kings and later defaced it.

==Olmec==-People who lived in the lowlands of the gulf of Mexico between 1400 BC and 400 AD. They disfigured colossal heads.

==Chatinos==-Occupied coastal Oaxaca prior to the Mixtec’s around 1100 AD

==Hatshepsut==-The mother of Pharaoh Thutmose III. He attempted to destroy all evidence of her reign to claim her accomplishments as her own

Questions

^^How did former President Trump attempt to control the destruction of monuments in the US?^^

--Executive order saying that he wouldn’t allow violent mobs to become the arbiters of history in public spaces.

%%Why does Kurnick (2020) argue that the destruction of confederate monuments (and Trumps actions) are about “power in the present”?%%

--Protesters today are challenging the social order by questioning who should be publicly remembered or forgotten.

^^What are other examples of people in the past challenging authority through the defacing or destruction of monuments? What are some of the different motives for these actions?^^ 

--Akkadians made a bronze likeness of the King Sargon of Akkad. Later they cut of its ears, broke its nose, and gouged one of its eyes. This was to show the downfall and humiliation of their leader.

--The Olmec created giant portraits of rulers faces and many have their noses or lips broken off or gouges or pox marks on their faces. Many were also buried. This could have been to neutralize the previous leaders power or the next ruler defaced them.

--Chatinos used carved stone monuments of their rulers and reused them as a metate for grinding grain and seeds.