{
  "schema": "kbatch-document-lineage-v2",
  "generated": "2026-07-24",
  "claim": "Research backbone: major world-civilization-shaping documents · books · songs · charters · gitgraph / ancestry paths · concept overlap",
  "epistemic": "Educational comparative model · not theological, legal, or music-rights verdicts · metadata + PD links first · no sacred-text scrape · no lyric pirate · verify primary archives",
  "chartModes": [
    {
      "id": "gitgraph",
      "label": "Gitgraph lineage",
      "note": "Branch / merge paths like ancestry trees · shortTitle at each dot · parent→child edges"
    },
    {
      "id": "theme-matrix",
      "label": "Theme matrix",
      "note": "Instrument × concept co-occurrence across families"
    },
    {
      "id": "divergence",
      "label": "Concept divergence",
      "note": "Where claims overlap then split"
    }
  ],
  "families": [
    {
      "id": "substrate",
      "label": "Layered-line substrates",
      "note": "Physical carriers — stone, clay, scroll, parchment, print, staff notation"
    },
    {
      "id": "sacred-text",
      "label": "Sacred / catechetical transmission",
      "note": "Religious circles · translation branches · not a ranking of faiths"
    },
    {
      "id": "political",
      "label": "Political founding instruments",
      "note": "Independence · rights · constitutions · international charters"
    },
    {
      "id": "law-codex",
      "label": "Law codices & edicts",
      "note": "Systematic rule books · imperial codes · public edicts"
    },
    {
      "id": "philosophy",
      "label": "Philosophy & wisdom books",
      "note": "Classical & axial-age works that shaped political and ethical language"
    },
    {
      "id": "literature",
      "label": "Literature · epic · book culture",
      "note": "Civilization-shaping narrative works · manuscript to print"
    },
    {
      "id": "song",
      "label": "Song · chant · anthem lineage",
      "note": "Voice traditions that bind communities · PD metadata only · no lyric corpus dump"
    },
    {
      "id": "concept",
      "label": "Concept nodes",
      "note": "Abstract hopes that travel across families"
    }
  ],
  "nodes": [
    {
      "id": "cuneiform-tablets",
      "label": "Cuneiform tablets & lists",
      "shortTitle": "Cuneiform lists",
      "family": "substrate",
      "region": "mesopotamia",
      "civilization": "sumer-akkad-babylon",
      "era": "ancient",
      "yearApprox": -2100,
      "kind": "layered-line-substrate",
      "themes": [
        "authority-of-text",
        "archive-practice",
        "layered-lines"
      ],
      "note": "Administrative + legal lists · early archive culture"
    },
    {
      "id": "stone-carved-law",
      "label": "Stone-carved law & edicts",
      "shortTitle": "Stone law",
      "family": "substrate",
      "region": "mesopotamia",
      "civilization": "babylon",
      "era": "ancient",
      "yearApprox": -1750,
      "kind": "layered-line-substrate",
      "themes": [
        "authority-of-text",
        "public-inscription",
        "layered-lines"
      ],
      "note": "Hammurabi-type stelae · law as carved line"
    },
    {
      "id": "egyptian-stelae",
      "label": "Egyptian stelae & temple lines",
      "shortTitle": "Egyptian stelae",
      "family": "substrate",
      "region": "egypt",
      "civilization": "pharaonic",
      "era": "ancient",
      "yearApprox": -1400,
      "kind": "layered-line-substrate",
      "themes": [
        "authority-of-text",
        "public-inscription",
        "religion-order",
        "layered-lines"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ashoka-edicts",
      "label": "Ashoka rock & pillar edicts",
      "shortTitle": "Ashoka edicts",
      "family": "substrate",
      "region": "south-asia",
      "civilization": "maurya",
      "era": "ancient",
      "yearApprox": -250,
      "kind": "public-edict",
      "themes": [
        "authority-of-text",
        "public-inscription",
        "dharma-politics",
        "layered-lines"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oracle-bone-china",
      "label": "Chinese oracle-bone inscriptions",
      "shortTitle": "Oracle bones",
      "family": "substrate",
      "region": "east-asia",
      "civilization": "shang",
      "era": "ancient",
      "yearApprox": -1200,
      "kind": "layered-line-substrate",
      "themes": [
        "authority-of-text",
        "divination-archive",
        "layered-lines"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "bronze-inscription-china",
      "label": "Chinese bronze vessel inscriptions",
      "shortTitle": "Bronze inscriptions",
      "family": "substrate",
      "region": "east-asia",
      "civilization": "zhou",
      "era": "ancient",
      "yearApprox": -900,
      "kind": "layered-line-substrate",
      "themes": [
        "authority-of-text",
        "lineage-memory",
        "layered-lines"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "quipu-andean",
      "label": "Andean khipu / quipu record systems",
      "shortTitle": "Khipu records",
      "family": "substrate",
      "region": "andes",
      "civilization": "andean",
      "era": "pre-columbian",
      "yearApprox": 1400,
      "kind": "record-system",
      "themes": [
        "archive-practice",
        "authority-of-text",
        "non-linear-record"
      ],
      "note": "Knotted-cord administration · different carrier, same archival impulse"
    },
    {
      "id": "mesoamerican-codex",
      "label": "Mesoamerican painted codices",
      "shortTitle": "Meso codices",
      "family": "substrate",
      "region": "mesoamerica",
      "civilization": "nahua-maya",
      "era": "pre-columbian",
      "yearApprox": 1400,
      "kind": "codex",
      "themes": [
        "authority-of-text",
        "calendar-ritual",
        "layered-lines"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "parchment-codex",
      "label": "Parchment codex culture",
      "shortTitle": "Parchment codex",
      "family": "substrate",
      "region": "mediterranean",
      "civilization": "late-antique",
      "era": "late-antiquity",
      "yearApprox": 300,
      "kind": "book-form",
      "themes": [
        "book-culture",
        "layered-lines",
        "authority-of-text"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "gutenberg-print",
      "label": "Gutenberg print revolution (c. 1450s)",
      "shortTitle": "Print · Gutenberg",
      "family": "substrate",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "early-modern-europe",
      "era": "early-modern",
      "yearApprox": 1455,
      "kind": "print-substrate",
      "themes": [
        "print-culture",
        "vernacular-access",
        "authority-of-text"
      ],
      "note": "Mass branch factor for books · Bibles · later political pamphlets"
    },
    {
      "id": "music-staff-notation",
      "label": "Western staff notation lineage",
      "shortTitle": "Staff notation",
      "family": "substrate",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "medieval-europe",
      "era": "medieval",
      "yearApprox": 1025,
      "kind": "music-writing",
      "themes": [
        "song-transmission",
        "layered-lines",
        "print-culture"
      ],
      "note": "Guido-era staff → later printed scores · PD theory not commercial scores"
    },
    {
      "id": "dead-sea-scrolls",
      "label": "Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran corpus)",
      "shortTitle": "Qumran scrolls",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "levant",
      "civilization": "second-temple",
      "era": "late-antiquity",
      "yearApprox": -100,
      "kind": "manuscript-corpus",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "textual-plurality",
        "layered-lines"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "septuagint",
      "label": "Septuagint (LXX)",
      "shortTitle": "Septuagint LXX",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "mediterranean",
      "civilization": "hellenistic-jewish",
      "era": "hellenistic",
      "yearApprox": -250,
      "kind": "translation-tradition",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "authority-of-text"
      ],
      "language": "el"
    },
    {
      "id": "vulgate",
      "label": "Latin Vulgate (Jerome tradition)",
      "shortTitle": "Latin Vulgate",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "latin-christian",
      "era": "late-antiquity",
      "yearApprox": 405,
      "kind": "translation-tradition",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "catechism-circles",
        "authority-of-text"
      ],
      "language": "la"
    },
    {
      "id": "wycliffe-bible",
      "label": "Wycliffite English Bible tradition",
      "shortTitle": "Wycliffe EN",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "england",
      "era": "medieval",
      "yearApprox": 1382,
      "kind": "vernacular-bible",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "vernacular-access"
      ],
      "language": "enm"
    },
    {
      "id": "tyndale-nt",
      "label": "Tyndale New Testament (and OT portions)",
      "shortTitle": "Tyndale NT",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "england",
      "era": "reformation",
      "yearApprox": 1526,
      "kind": "vernacular-bible",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "vernacular-access",
        "print-culture"
      ],
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": "coverdale-bible",
      "label": "Coverdale Bible (1535)",
      "shortTitle": "Coverdale 1535",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "england",
      "era": "reformation",
      "yearApprox": 1535,
      "kind": "vernacular-bible",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "print-culture"
      ],
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": "matthew-bible",
      "label": "Matthew Bible (1537) · Rogers / “Thomas Matthew”",
      "shortTitle": "Matthew Bible",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "england",
      "era": "reformation",
      "yearApprox": 1537,
      "kind": "vernacular-bible",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "print-culture",
        "martyr-witness"
      ],
      "language": "en",
      "aliases": [
        "John Rogers Bible",
        "Martyrs Bible (Rogers)",
        "Thomas Matthew Bible"
      ],
      "note": "John Rogers compiled under Thomas Matthew · major English branch node"
    },
    {
      "id": "great-bible",
      "label": "Great Bible (1539)",
      "shortTitle": "Great Bible",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "england",
      "era": "reformation",
      "yearApprox": 1539,
      "kind": "vernacular-bible",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "authority-of-text",
        "print-culture"
      ],
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": "geneva-bible",
      "label": "Geneva Bible (1560)",
      "shortTitle": "Geneva 1560",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "reformed",
      "era": "reformation",
      "yearApprox": 1560,
      "kind": "vernacular-bible",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "catechism-circles",
        "print-culture"
      ],
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": "bishops-bible",
      "label": "Bishops' Bible (1568)",
      "shortTitle": "Bishops' Bible",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "england",
      "era": "reformation",
      "yearApprox": 1568,
      "kind": "vernacular-bible",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "authority-of-text"
      ],
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": "kjv-1611",
      "label": "King James / Authorized Version (1611)",
      "shortTitle": "KJV 1611",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "england",
      "era": "early-modern",
      "yearApprox": 1611,
      "kind": "vernacular-bible",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "authority-of-text",
        "print-culture"
      ],
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": "catechism-circles",
      "label": "Catechism & confessional circles",
      "shortTitle": "Catechisms",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "reformation-europe",
      "era": "reformation-onward",
      "yearApprox": 1529,
      "kind": "catechetical-instrument",
      "themes": [
        "catechism-circles",
        "sacred-transmission",
        "authority-of-text"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "quran-transmission",
      "label": "Qurʾān manuscript & recitation transmission",
      "shortTitle": "Qurʾān xmit",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "west-asia",
      "civilization": "islamic",
      "era": "early-medieval",
      "yearApprox": 650,
      "kind": "sacred-corpus-transmission",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "oral-written",
        "authority-of-text"
      ],
      "note": "Educational metadata only · no full-text scrape"
    },
    {
      "id": "pali-canon",
      "label": "Pāli Canon / Tipiṭaka transmission",
      "shortTitle": "Pāli Canon",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "south-asia",
      "civilization": "theravada",
      "era": "ancient-to-medieval",
      "yearApprox": -100,
      "kind": "sacred-corpus-transmission",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "oral-written",
        "dharma-politics"
      ],
      "note": "Living Books may point PD translations · no pirate editions"
    },
    {
      "id": "vedic-corpus",
      "label": "Vedic & Upaniṣadic corpus (metadata node)",
      "shortTitle": "Veda · Upaniṣad",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "south-asia",
      "civilization": "indic",
      "era": "ancient",
      "yearApprox": -1000,
      "kind": "sacred-corpus-transmission",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "oral-written",
        "philosophy-source"
      ],
      "note": "Oral primacy · later manuscript · educational lineage only"
    },
    {
      "id": "confucian-classics",
      "label": "Confucian Four Books & Five Classics tradition",
      "shortTitle": "Confucian classics",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "east-asia",
      "civilization": "chinese-imperial",
      "era": "ancient-to-imperial",
      "yearApprox": -400,
      "kind": "classics-corpus",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "exam-culture",
        "authority-of-text",
        "state-ethics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "buddhist-chinese-canon",
      "label": "Chinese Buddhist canon (Tripitaka Sinica lineage)",
      "shortTitle": "Chinese Tripitaka",
      "family": "sacred-text",
      "region": "east-asia",
      "civilization": "sinosphere",
      "era": "medieval",
      "yearApprox": 700,
      "kind": "translation-corpus",
      "themes": [
        "sacred-transmission",
        "translation-branch",
        "print-culture"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "twelve-tables",
      "label": "Roman Twelve Tables tradition",
      "shortTitle": "Twelve Tables",
      "family": "law-codex",
      "region": "mediterranean",
      "civilization": "rome",
      "era": "ancient",
      "yearApprox": -450,
      "kind": "law-code",
      "themes": [
        "rule-outline",
        "public-inscription",
        "authority-of-text"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "justinian-corpus",
      "label": "Justinian Corpus Juris Civilis",
      "shortTitle": "Justinian code",
      "family": "law-codex",
      "region": "mediterranean",
      "civilization": "byzantine",
      "era": "late-antiquity",
      "yearApprox": 533,
      "kind": "law-code",
      "themes": [
        "rule-outline",
        "authority-of-text",
        "reception-history"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "napoleonic-code",
      "label": "Napoleonic Code (Code civil, 1804)",
      "shortTitle": "Code civil 1804",
      "family": "law-codex",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "france",
      "era": "modern",
      "yearApprox": 1804,
      "kind": "law-code",
      "themes": [
        "rule-outline",
        "equality-claim",
        "export-model"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "plato-republic",
      "label": "Plato · Republic (tradition)",
      "shortTitle": "Plato Republic",
      "family": "philosophy",
      "region": "mediterranean",
      "civilization": "classical-greece",
      "era": "classical",
      "yearApprox": -375,
      "kind": "philosophy-book",
      "themes": [
        "justice-theory",
        "political-form",
        "education"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "aristotle-politics",
      "label": "Aristotle · Politics / Ethics tradition",
      "shortTitle": "Aristotle Politics",
      "family": "philosophy",
      "region": "mediterranean",
      "civilization": "classical-greece",
      "era": "classical",
      "yearApprox": -350,
      "kind": "philosophy-book",
      "themes": [
        "political-form",
        "virtue",
        "constitution-types"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "analects-confucius",
      "label": "Analects of Confucius (Lunyu tradition)",
      "shortTitle": "Analects",
      "family": "philosophy",
      "region": "east-asia",
      "civilization": "chinese",
      "era": "classical",
      "yearApprox": -400,
      "kind": "philosophy-book",
      "themes": [
        "state-ethics",
        "education",
        "ritual-order"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "daodejing",
      "label": "Daodejing (Laozi tradition)",
      "shortTitle": "Daodejing",
      "family": "philosophy",
      "region": "east-asia",
      "civilization": "chinese",
      "era": "classical",
      "yearApprox": -300,
      "kind": "philosophy-book",
      "themes": [
        "philosophy-source",
        "statecraft",
        "cosmology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cicero-republic",
      "label": "Cicero · De re publica / oratory tradition",
      "shortTitle": "Cicero republic",
      "family": "philosophy",
      "region": "mediterranean",
      "civilization": "rome",
      "era": "classical",
      "yearApprox": -50,
      "kind": "philosophy-book",
      "themes": [
        "natural-law",
        "republicanism",
        "rhetoric"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "gilgamesh",
      "label": "Epic of Gilgamesh",
      "shortTitle": "Gilgamesh",
      "family": "literature",
      "region": "mesopotamia",
      "civilization": "mesopotamian",
      "era": "ancient",
      "yearApprox": -1800,
      "kind": "epic",
      "themes": [
        "epic-narrative",
        "mortality",
        "kingship"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "iliad-odyssey",
      "label": "Homeric Iliad & Odyssey tradition",
      "shortTitle": "Homer",
      "family": "literature",
      "region": "mediterranean",
      "civilization": "classical-greece",
      "era": "archaic",
      "yearApprox": -700,
      "kind": "epic",
      "themes": [
        "epic-narrative",
        "oral-written",
        "education"
      ],
      "kbatchSurface": "/labs/living-books"
    },
    {
      "id": "ramayana-mahabharata",
      "label": "Rāmāyaṇa & Mahābhārata epic traditions",
      "shortTitle": "Rāmāyaṇa · MBH",
      "family": "literature",
      "region": "south-asia",
      "civilization": "indic",
      "era": "ancient",
      "yearApprox": -400,
      "kind": "epic",
      "themes": [
        "epic-narrative",
        "dharma-politics",
        "oral-written"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "beowulf",
      "label": "Beowulf (OE epic manuscript tradition)",
      "shortTitle": "Beowulf",
      "family": "literature",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "anglo-saxon",
      "era": "early-medieval",
      "yearApprox": 1000,
      "kind": "epic",
      "themes": [
        "epic-narrative",
        "manuscript-culture"
      ],
      "kbatchSurface": "/labs/living-books"
    },
    {
      "id": "tale-of-genji",
      "label": "The Tale of Genji (Murasaki tradition)",
      "shortTitle": "Tale of Genji",
      "family": "literature",
      "region": "east-asia",
      "civilization": "heian-japan",
      "era": "medieval",
      "yearApprox": 1008,
      "kind": "novel-classic",
      "themes": [
        "book-culture",
        "court-culture",
        "narrative-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "one-thousand-nights",
      "label": "One Thousand and One Nights frame tradition",
      "shortTitle": "1001 Nights",
      "family": "literature",
      "region": "west-asia",
      "civilization": "islamic-world",
      "era": "medieval",
      "yearApprox": 900,
      "kind": "frame-tale",
      "themes": [
        "narrative-form",
        "translation-branch",
        "oral-written"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dante-commedia",
      "label": "Dante · Divine Comedy",
      "shortTitle": "Dante Commedia",
      "family": "literature",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "italy",
      "era": "medieval",
      "yearApprox": 1320,
      "kind": "epic-poem",
      "themes": [
        "vernacular-access",
        "cosmology",
        "book-culture"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "shakespeare-folio",
      "label": "Shakespeare First Folio (1623) tradition",
      "shortTitle": "First Folio",
      "family": "literature",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "england",
      "era": "early-modern",
      "yearApprox": 1623,
      "kind": "drama-corpus",
      "themes": [
        "print-culture",
        "drama",
        "english-canon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "journey-to-west",
      "label": "Journey to the West (Xiyouji tradition)",
      "shortTitle": "Xiyouji",
      "family": "literature",
      "region": "east-asia",
      "civilization": "ming-china",
      "era": "early-modern",
      "yearApprox": 1592,
      "kind": "novel-classic",
      "themes": [
        "narrative-form",
        "buddhist-folklore",
        "print-culture"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "gregorian-chant",
      "label": "Gregorian chant / plainchant tradition",
      "shortTitle": "Gregorian chant",
      "family": "song",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "latin-christian",
      "era": "medieval",
      "yearApprox": 800,
      "kind": "liturgical-song",
      "themes": [
        "song-transmission",
        "sacred-transmission",
        "oral-written"
      ],
      "note": "Liturgical voice · PD historical · not a commercial score dump"
    },
    {
      "id": "troubadour-minnesang",
      "label": "Troubadour / Minnesang / court song",
      "shortTitle": "Troubadour song",
      "family": "song",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "medieval-europe",
      "era": "medieval",
      "yearApprox": 1150,
      "kind": "court-song",
      "themes": [
        "song-transmission",
        "vernacular-access",
        "poetry-music"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "folk-ballad-broadsheet",
      "label": "Folk ballad & broadsheet song culture",
      "shortTitle": "Ballad · broadsheet",
      "family": "song",
      "region": "europe-atlantic",
      "civilization": "popular-print",
      "era": "early-modern",
      "yearApprox": 1600,
      "kind": "popular-song",
      "themes": [
        "song-transmission",
        "print-culture",
        "oral-written"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "african-american-spirituals",
      "label": "African American spirituals & work-song lineage",
      "shortTitle": "Spirituals",
      "family": "song",
      "region": "north-america",
      "civilization": "african-diaspora",
      "era": "modern",
      "yearApprox": 1860,
      "kind": "sacred-folk-song",
      "themes": [
        "song-transmission",
        "liberation-hope",
        "oral-written"
      ],
      "note": "Historical / PD-era metadata · honor living tradition without pirate lyrics"
    },
    {
      "id": "national-anthem-tradition",
      "label": "National anthem & civic hymn tradition",
      "shortTitle": "National anthems",
      "family": "song",
      "region": "global",
      "civilization": "nation-state",
      "era": "modern",
      "yearApprox": 1792,
      "kind": "civic-song",
      "themes": [
        "song-transmission",
        "popular-sovereignty",
        "nation-form"
      ],
      "note": "e.g. La Marseillaise era onward · civic song as political voice"
    },
    {
      "id": "world-folk-revival",
      "label": "World folk & ethnomusicology collect era",
      "shortTitle": "Folk collect era",
      "family": "song",
      "region": "global",
      "civilization": "modern-global",
      "era": "modern",
      "yearApprox": 1900,
      "kind": "collection-era",
      "themes": [
        "song-transmission",
        "archive-practice",
        "oral-written"
      ],
      "note": "Field recording / notation archives · not commercial streaming dumps"
    },
    {
      "id": "magna-carta-1215",
      "label": "Magna Carta (1215 tradition)",
      "shortTitle": "Magna Carta",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "england",
      "era": "medieval",
      "yearApprox": 1215,
      "kind": "charter",
      "themes": [
        "rule-outline",
        "due-process",
        "limits-on-ruler"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "english-bill-rights-1689",
      "label": "English Bill of Rights (1689)",
      "shortTitle": "EN Bill Rights",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "england",
      "era": "early-modern",
      "yearApprox": 1689,
      "kind": "rights-instrument",
      "themes": [
        "rule-outline",
        "parliamentary-path",
        "limits-on-ruler",
        "speech-press"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-declaration-1776",
      "label": "US Declaration of Independence (1776)",
      "shortTitle": "US Decl. 1776",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "north-america",
      "civilization": "united-states",
      "era": "early-modern",
      "yearApprox": 1776,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "themes": [
        "popular-sovereignty",
        "natural-rights",
        "right-of-revolution",
        "equality-claim",
        "grievance-form"
      ],
      "language": "multi",
      "kbatchSurface": "/labs/declaration-digital-edition/"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-constitution-1787",
      "label": "US Constitution (1787)",
      "shortTitle": "US Const.",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "north-america",
      "civilization": "united-states",
      "era": "early-modern",
      "yearApprox": 1787,
      "kind": "constitution",
      "themes": [
        "rule-outline",
        "separation-of-powers",
        "federalism",
        "amendment-process"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "us-bill-of-rights-1791",
      "label": "US Bill of Rights (1791)",
      "shortTitle": "US Bill Rights",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "north-america",
      "civilization": "united-states",
      "era": "early-modern",
      "yearApprox": 1791,
      "kind": "rights-amendments",
      "themes": [
        "natural-rights",
        "speech-press",
        "religion",
        "due-process",
        "rule-outline"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "france-rights-man-1789",
      "label": "French Rights of Man (1789)",
      "shortTitle": "FR Rights Man",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "france",
      "era": "early-modern",
      "yearApprox": 1789,
      "kind": "rights-declaration",
      "themes": [
        "natural-rights",
        "equality-claim",
        "popular-sovereignty",
        "resistance-to-oppression"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "haiti-declaration-1804",
      "label": "Haitian Declaration of Independence (1804)",
      "shortTitle": "Haiti 1804",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "caribbean",
      "civilization": "haiti",
      "era": "modern",
      "yearApprox": 1804,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "themes": [
        "anti-colonial",
        "equality-claim",
        "right-of-revolution",
        "racial-liberation"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "venezuela-1811",
      "label": "Venezuelan Declaration of Independence (1811)",
      "shortTitle": "Venezuela 1811",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "south-america",
      "civilization": "venezuela",
      "era": "modern",
      "yearApprox": 1811,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "themes": [
        "anti-colonial",
        "popular-sovereignty",
        "independence"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "mexico-1821",
      "label": "Mexican Independence instruments (1821 era)",
      "shortTitle": "Mexico 1821",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "mesoamerica",
      "civilization": "mexico",
      "era": "modern",
      "yearApprox": 1821,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "themes": [
        "anti-colonial",
        "independence",
        "nation-form"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "greece-1822",
      "label": "Greek Declaration of Independence (1822)",
      "shortTitle": "Greece 1822",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "greece",
      "era": "modern",
      "yearApprox": 1822,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "themes": [
        "national-liberation",
        "popular-sovereignty"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "liberia-1847",
      "label": "Liberian Declaration of Independence (1847)",
      "shortTitle": "Liberia 1847",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "west-africa",
      "civilization": "liberia",
      "era": "modern",
      "yearApprox": 1847,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "themes": [
        "independence",
        "equality-claim"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "ireland-1916",
      "label": "Proclamation of the Irish Republic (1916)",
      "shortTitle": "Ireland 1916",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "europe",
      "civilization": "ireland",
      "era": "modern",
      "yearApprox": 1916,
      "kind": "proclamation",
      "themes": [
        "national-liberation",
        "popular-sovereignty"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "indonesia-1945",
      "label": "Indonesian Proclamation of Independence (1945)",
      "shortTitle": "Indonesia 1945",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "southeast-asia",
      "civilization": "indonesia",
      "era": "postwar",
      "yearApprox": 1945,
      "kind": "proclamation",
      "themes": [
        "anti-colonial",
        "independence"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "vietnam-1945",
      "label": "Vietnamese Declaration of Independence (1945)",
      "shortTitle": "Vietnam 1945",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "southeast-asia",
      "civilization": "vietnam",
      "era": "postwar",
      "yearApprox": 1945,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "themes": [
        "anti-colonial",
        "natural-rights",
        "independence"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "india-1950-preamble",
      "label": "Constitution of India — Preamble (1950)",
      "shortTitle": "India Const.",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "south-asia",
      "civilization": "india",
      "era": "postwar",
      "yearApprox": 1950,
      "kind": "constitution-preamble",
      "themes": [
        "equality-claim",
        "dignity",
        "popular-sovereignty",
        "secular-republic"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "israel-1948",
      "label": "Israeli Declaration of Independence (1948)",
      "shortTitle": "Israel 1948",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "west-asia",
      "civilization": "israel",
      "era": "postwar",
      "yearApprox": 1948,
      "kind": "independence-declaration",
      "themes": [
        "nation-form",
        "self-determination"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "china-1912",
      "label": "Republic of China founding instruments (1912 era)",
      "shortTitle": "ROC 1912",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "east-asia",
      "civilization": "china",
      "era": "modern",
      "yearApprox": 1912,
      "kind": "founding-instrument",
      "themes": [
        "republic-form",
        "nation-form"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "un-charter-1945",
      "label": "Charter of the United Nations (1945)",
      "shortTitle": "UN Charter",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "global",
      "civilization": "united-nations",
      "era": "postwar",
      "yearApprox": 1945,
      "kind": "international-charter",
      "themes": [
        "international-order",
        "peace",
        "sovereignty"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "un-udhr-1948",
      "label": "Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)",
      "shortTitle": "UDHR 1948",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "global",
      "civilization": "united-nations",
      "era": "postwar",
      "yearApprox": 1948,
      "kind": "international-rights",
      "themes": [
        "universal-rights",
        "equality-claim",
        "dignity",
        "natural-rights"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "african-charter-1981",
      "label": "African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (1981)",
      "shortTitle": "Banjul 1981",
      "family": "political",
      "region": "africa",
      "civilization": "oau-au",
      "era": "postwar",
      "yearApprox": 1981,
      "kind": "regional-rights",
      "themes": [
        "peoples-rights",
        "equality-claim",
        "dignity"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
      "id": "south-africa-1996-preamble",
      "label": "Constitution of South Africa — Preamble (1996)",
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      "family": "political",
      "region": "southern-africa",
      "civilization": "south-africa",
      "era": "postwar",
      "yearApprox": 1996,
      "kind": "constitution-preamble",
      "themes": [
        "dignity",
        "equality-claim",
        "non-racial-democracy"
      ],
      "language": "multi"
    },
    {
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      "shortTitle": "Auth. of text",
      "family": "concept",
      "kind": "concept-node",
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        "authority-of-text",
        "layered-lines"
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      "kind": "concept-node",
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        "translation-branch",
        "sacred-transmission",
        "textual-plurality"
      ]
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      "shortTitle": "Pop. sovereignty",
      "family": "concept",
      "kind": "concept-node",
      "themes": [
        "popular-sovereignty",
        "consent-of-governed"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "concept-equality",
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      "shortTitle": "Equality claim",
      "family": "concept",
      "kind": "concept-node",
      "themes": [
        "equality-claim",
        "dignity"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "concept-oral-written",
      "label": "Concept · oral ↔ written transmission",
      "shortTitle": "Oral ↔ written",
      "family": "concept",
      "kind": "concept-node",
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        "oral-written",
        "song-transmission",
        "sacred-transmission"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "concept-print-branch",
      "label": "Concept · print multiplies branches",
      "shortTitle": "Print multiplies",
      "family": "concept",
      "kind": "concept-node",
      "themes": [
        "print-culture",
        "vernacular-access"
      ]
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      "family": "concept",
      "kind": "concept-node",
      "themes": [
        "epic-narrative",
        "education",
        "oral-written"
      ]
    }
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      "note": "List cultures + carved public law"
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      "rel": "instantiates"
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      "to": "concept-epic-memory",
      "rel": "instantiates"
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      "from": "iliad-odyssey",
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    },
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      "to": "concept-epic-memory",
      "rel": "instantiates"
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      "to": "concept-print-branch",
      "rel": "exemplifies"
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      "rel": "exemplifies"
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      "to": "concept-equality",
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      "rel": "limits-on-ruler-line"
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      "rel": "rights-layer"
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      "to": "haiti-declaration-1804",
      "rel": "critique-and-extension"
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      "from": "us-declaration-1776",
      "to": "haiti-declaration-1804",
      "rel": "related-form"
    },
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      "from": "us-declaration-1776",
      "to": "venezuela-1811",
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    },
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      "from": "haiti-declaration-1804",
      "to": "venezuela-1811",
      "rel": "liberation-echo"
    },
    {
      "from": "venezuela-1811",
      "to": "mexico-1821",
      "rel": "spanish-america-wave"
    },
    {
      "from": "us-declaration-1776",
      "to": "greece-1822",
      "rel": "philhellenic-echo"
    },
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      "from": "us-declaration-1776",
      "to": "liberia-1847",
      "rel": "related-form"
    },
    {
      "from": "us-declaration-1776",
      "to": "ireland-1916",
      "rel": "proclamation-memory"
    },
    {
      "from": "us-declaration-1776",
      "to": "vietnam-1945",
      "rel": "cited-through-line"
    },
    {
      "from": "us-declaration-1776",
      "to": "indonesia-1945",
      "rel": "anti-colonial-echo"
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      "from": "us-declaration-1776",
      "to": "un-udhr-1948",
      "rel": "universalization-path"
    },
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      "from": "france-rights-man-1789",
      "to": "un-udhr-1948",
      "rel": "universalization-path"
    },
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      "from": "un-charter-1945",
      "to": "un-udhr-1948",
      "rel": "rights-companion"
    },
    {
      "from": "un-udhr-1948",
      "to": "african-charter-1981",
      "rel": "regional-reception"
    },
    {
      "from": "un-udhr-1948",
      "to": "south-africa-1996-preamble",
      "rel": "post-apartheid-reception"
    },
    {
      "from": "un-udhr-1948",
      "to": "india-1950-preamble",
      "rel": "constitutional-reception"
    },
    {
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      "to": "concept-popular-sovereignty",
      "rel": "instantiates"
    },
    {
      "from": "france-rights-man-1789",
      "to": "concept-popular-sovereignty",
      "rel": "instantiates"
    },
    {
      "from": "us-declaration-1776",
      "to": "concept-equality",
      "rel": "claims"
    },
    {
      "from": "haiti-declaration-1804",
      "to": "concept-equality",
      "rel": "extends"
    },
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      "from": "un-udhr-1948",
      "to": "concept-equality",
      "rel": "universalizes"
    },
    {
      "from": "china-1912",
      "to": "concept-popular-sovereignty",
      "rel": "republic-claim"
    },
    {
      "from": "israel-1948",
      "to": "concept-popular-sovereignty",
      "rel": "nation-claim"
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      "id": "english-bible-branches",
      "label": "English Bible translation branches",
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        "sacred-text",
        "concept"
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        "tyndale-nt",
        "coverdale-bible",
        "matthew-bible",
        "great-bible",
        "geneva-bible",
        "bishops-bible",
        "kjv-1611",
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        "concept-authority-of-text"
      ],
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        "wycliffe-bible",
        "tyndale-nt"
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        "substrate",
        "concept"
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        "cuneiform-tablets",
        "stone-carved-law",
        "egyptian-stelae",
        "oracle-bone-china",
        "bronze-inscription-china",
        "ashoka-edicts",
        "parchment-codex",
        "mesoamerican-codex",
        "quipu-andean",
        "gutenberg-print",
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        "concept-authority-of-text",
        "concept-print-branch"
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        "cuneiform-tablets",
        "oracle-bone-china",
        "egyptian-stelae"
      ],
      "focusNode": "concept-authority-of-text",
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    },
    {
      "id": "atlantic-political",
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        "political",
        "concept"
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        "magna-carta-1215",
        "english-bill-rights-1689",
        "us-declaration-1776",
        "us-constitution-1787",
        "us-bill-of-rights-1791",
        "france-rights-man-1789",
        "haiti-declaration-1804",
        "concept-popular-sovereignty",
        "concept-equality"
      ],
      "rootIds": [
        "magna-carta-1215",
        "english-bill-rights-1689"
      ],
      "focusNode": "us-declaration-1776",
      "note": "Charter memory → revolutionary claim → constitution → Haitian extension of equality"
    },
    {
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        "political",
        "concept"
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        "haiti-declaration-1804",
        "venezuela-1811",
        "mexico-1821",
        "greece-1822",
        "liberia-1847",
        "ireland-1916",
        "china-1912",
        "indonesia-1945",
        "vietnam-1945",
        "israel-1948",
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      "rootIds": [
        "us-declaration-1776",
        "france-rights-man-1789"
      ],
      "focusNode": "un-udhr-1948",
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        "literature",
        "philosophy",
        "law-codex",
        "concept"
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        "aristotle-politics",
        "twelve-tables",
        "cicero-republic",
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        "concept-epic-memory",
        "concept-popular-sovereignty",
        "concept-authority-of-text"
      ],
      "rootIds": [
        "iliad-odyssey",
        "twelve-tables"
      ],
      "focusNode": "justinian-corpus",
      "note": "Homer → philosophy → Roman law → Justinian reception into later Europe"
    },
    {
      "id": "east-asian-classics",
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      "families": [
        "substrate",
        "sacred-text",
        "philosophy",
        "literature",
        "concept"
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        "confucian-classics",
        "analects-confucius",
        "daodejing",
        "buddhist-chinese-canon",
        "tale-of-genji",
        "journey-to-west",
        "concept-authority-of-text",
        "concept-translation-branch"
      ],
      "rootIds": [
        "oracle-bone-china",
        "confucian-classics"
      ],
      "focusNode": "analects-confucius",
      "note": "Oracle bone → classics → Buddhist translation · Genji · Xiyouji"
    },
    {
      "id": "south-asian-epic-dharma",
      "label": "South Asian epic · dharma · edict",
      "families": [
        "sacred-text",
        "literature",
        "substrate",
        "concept"
      ],
      "nodeIds": [
        "vedic-corpus",
        "ramayana-mahabharata",
        "pali-canon",
        "ashoka-edicts",
        "india-1950-preamble",
        "concept-epic-memory",
        "concept-oral-written",
        "concept-equality"
      ],
      "rootIds": [
        "vedic-corpus",
        "ashoka-edicts"
      ],
      "focusNode": "ramayana-mahabharata",
      "note": "Veda · epics · Pāli · Ashoka public line → modern constitutional dignity language"
    },
    {
      "id": "abrahamic-transmission",
      "label": "Abrahamic transmission circles (comparative)",
      "families": [
        "sacred-text",
        "concept"
      ],
      "nodeIds": [
        "dead-sea-scrolls",
        "septuagint",
        "vulgate",
        "quran-transmission",
        "kjv-1611",
        "concept-translation-branch",
        "concept-oral-written",
        "concept-authority-of-text"
      ],
      "rootIds": [
        "dead-sea-scrolls",
        "septuagint",
        "quran-transmission"
      ],
      "focusNode": "concept-translation-branch",
      "note": "Comparative transmission only · no confessional ranking · metadata educational"
    },
    {
      "id": "literature-epic-to-print",
      "label": "Literature · epic → manuscript → print",
      "families": [
        "literature",
        "substrate",
        "concept"
      ],
      "nodeIds": [
        "gilgamesh",
        "iliad-odyssey",
        "ramayana-mahabharata",
        "beowulf",
        "one-thousand-nights",
        "dante-commedia",
        "tale-of-genji",
        "gutenberg-print",
        "shakespeare-folio",
        "journey-to-west",
        "concept-epic-memory",
        "concept-print-branch"
      ],
      "rootIds": [
        "gilgamesh",
        "iliad-odyssey"
      ],
      "focusNode": "gutenberg-print",
      "note": "World epics and classics into print culture · Living Books surfaces where PD"
    },
    {
      "id": "song-and-voice",
      "label": "Song · chant · anthem · spirituals",
      "families": [
        "song",
        "substrate",
        "concept"
      ],
      "nodeIds": [
        "gregorian-chant",
        "music-staff-notation",
        "troubadour-minnesang",
        "folk-ballad-broadsheet",
        "national-anthem-tradition",
        "african-american-spirituals",
        "world-folk-revival",
        "concept-oral-written",
        "concept-popular-sovereignty",
        "concept-equality"
      ],
      "rootIds": [
        "gregorian-chant",
        "troubadour-minnesang"
      ],
      "focusNode": "national-anthem-tradition",
      "note": "Voice lineages that shape communities · PD historical · no lyric pirate"
    },
    {
      "id": "law-codex-reception",
      "label": "Law codex reception (Rome → modern codes)",
      "families": [
        "law-codex",
        "political",
        "concept"
      ],
      "nodeIds": [
        "twelve-tables",
        "justinian-corpus",
        "magna-carta-1215",
        "napoleonic-code",
        "us-constitution-1787",
        "concept-authority-of-text",
        "concept-equality"
      ],
      "rootIds": [
        "twelve-tables"
      ],
      "focusNode": "napoleonic-code",
      "note": "Public law tables → Justinian → charter limits → civil codes · constitutions"
    }
  ],
  "conceptOverlaps": [
    {
      "concept": "authority-of-text",
      "overlap": [
        "stone-carved-law",
        "ashoka-edicts",
        "vulgate",
        "kjv-1611",
        "confucian-classics",
        "us-constitution-1787",
        "quran-transmission"
      ],
      "divergence": "Sacred canon vs secular constitution vs carved public law vs exam classics — written/carved line binds; enforcers differ"
    },
    {
      "concept": "translation-branch",
      "overlap": [
        "septuagint",
        "matthew-bible",
        "geneva-bible",
        "kjv-1611",
        "buddhist-chinese-canon"
      ],
      "divergence": "Who authorizes a reading · annotations · martyrdom risk · official convergence"
    },
    {
      "concept": "equality-claim",
      "overlap": [
        "us-declaration-1776",
        "haiti-declaration-1804",
        "un-udhr-1948",
        "african-charter-1981",
        "south-africa-1996-preamble",
        "african-american-spirituals"
      ],
      "divergence": "Who is included · empire · racial liberation · universal dignity · song as claim"
    },
    {
      "concept": "layered-lines",
      "overlap": [
        "stone-carved-law",
        "dead-sea-scrolls",
        "us-declaration-1776",
        "music-staff-notation",
        "oracle-bone-china"
      ],
      "divergence": "Stone bands · scroll columns · engrossed parchment · staff · oracle bone — substrate changes, linear public address persists"
    },
    {
      "concept": "epic-memory",
      "overlap": [
        "gilgamesh",
        "iliad-odyssey",
        "ramayana-mahabharata",
        "beowulf",
        "dante-commedia"
      ],
      "divergence": "Oral vs manuscript vs school canon · who owns the story · national appropriation"
    },
    {
      "concept": "oral-written",
      "overlap": [
        "vedic-corpus",
        "quran-transmission",
        "gregorian-chant",
        "african-american-spirituals",
        "iliad-odyssey"
      ],
      "divergence": "When writing freezes voice · who may recite · archive vs living performance"
    },
    {
      "concept": "print-multiplies",
      "overlap": [
        "gutenberg-print",
        "tyndale-nt",
        "shakespeare-folio",
        "folk-ballad-broadsheet",
        "journey-to-west"
      ],
      "divergence": "Authorized print vs pirate / popular print · nation language standardization"
    }
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}