{ "source": "Scored by Fable 5.1 against the manuscript compiled 2026-09-08. All dimensions 0-10.", "dbs": { "method": "Composite = mean(Library Dest., Scribe Killing, Education Repl., 10 - Knowledge Absorb., Doctrinal Accel.). Recovery scored separately 0-10. Dragon’s Malice Score = (composite + recovery) / 2.", "cases": [ { "id": 1, "case": "Mongol conquest of Baghdad", "era": "medieval", "eraLabel": "1258", "libraryDest": 10, "scribeKilling": 9, "educationRepl": 7, "knowledgeAbsorb": 3, "doctrinalAccel": 2, "doctrinalTag": "none", "composite": 7.0, "recovery": 10, "maliceScore": 8.5, "justification": "Libraries emptied into the Tigris until the water ran black with ink for days, death tolls of 90,000 to 800,000 with the scholars killed, and seven centuries of Mesopotamian silence that never came back to the river.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 2, "case": "De Landa, Maní codex burning", "era": "earlyModern", "eraLabel": "1562", "libraryDest": 10, "scribeKilling": 8, "educationRepl": 10, "knowledgeAbsorb": 1, "doctrinalAccel": 10, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 9.4, "recovery": 10, "maliceScore": 9.7, "justification": "Twenty-seven codices burned by his own count, 4,500 Maya tortured, the entire education system replaced with the one he brought on the boat, by a man who could not read a single glyph and was convinced he was performing a sacred duty; the script stayed unreadable for 390 years.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 3, "case": "Third Council of Lima, quipu burning", "era": "earlyModern", "eraLabel": "1583", "libraryDest": 9, "scribeKilling": 7, "educationRepl": 10, "knowledgeAbsorb": 1, "doctrinalAccel": 9, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 8.8, "recovery": 10, "maliceScore": 9.4, "justification": "Roughly 751 quipus survive and the rest were burned as instruments of idolatry; within two generations the children of quipucamayocs were learning to read Spanish, not to tie knots, and the quipu is in a museum, undeciphered.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 4, "case": "Spanish conquest, Aztec and Inca (cheatgrass)", "era": "earlyModern", "eraLabel": "1519 to c. 1600", "libraryDest": 9, "scribeKilling": 8, "educationRepl": 10, "knowledgeAbsorb": 2, "doctrinalAccel": 8, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 8.6, "recovery": 10, "maliceScore": 9.3, "justification": "Twelve to twenty pre-conquest codices survive, the Cajamarca massacre was triggered by a breviary and a cry of sacrilege, every load-bearing component was replaced by a Spanish equivalent within fifty years, and forty thousand kilometers of road became mule tracks to silver mines; the cheatgrass is still there.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 5, "case": "Mongol conquest of China / Yuan", "era": "medieval", "eraLabel": "1279 to 1368", "libraryDest": 2, "scribeKilling": 2, "educationRepl": 3, "knowledgeAbsorb": 7, "doctrinalAccel": 0, "doctrinalTag": "none", "composite": 2.0, "recovery": 3, "maliceScore": 2.5, "justification": "The Confucian canon survived intact and the literati were too large, too embedded, too widely distributed to destroy; the exam was suspended for eighty years, not replaced, and when the Ming restored it in 1370 the system rebooted.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 6, "case": "Ottoman conquest of Constantinople", "era": "medieval", "eraLabel": "1453", "libraryDest": 2, "scribeKilling": 4, "educationRepl": 5, "knowledgeAbsorb": 8, "doctrinalAccel": 3, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 3.2, "recovery": 8, "maliceScore": 5.6, "justification": "Mehmed II preserved the Byzantine apparatus deliberately and kept a Greek library, the scholars scattered rather than died, and the millet system let Orthodox communities run their own affairs; in situ the city lived the same century over and over (8) while the diaspora produced the Renaissance within a generation (1).", "flags": [] }, { "id": 7, "case": "Qin book burning", "era": "ancient", "eraLabel": "213 BCE", "libraryDest": 8, "scribeKilling": 5, "educationRepl": 4, "knowledgeAbsorb": 5, "doctrinalAccel": 0, "doctrinalTag": "S", "composite": 4.4, "recovery": 2, "maliceScore": 3.2, "justification": "The earliest deliberate large-scale knowledge destruction on record, but the scholar class was already too large to kill completely, and texts memorized, hidden, or buried in walls came back under the Han to define the curriculum for two thousand years; a burn that curated.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 8, "case": "Nalanda / Hindu libraries, Muslim conquest", "era": "medieval", "eraLabel": "c. 1193 to 1200s", "libraryDest": 9, "scribeKilling": 8, "educationRepl": 7, "knowledgeAbsorb": 3, "doctrinalAccel": 8, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 7.8, "recovery": 10, "maliceScore": 8.9, "justification": "The manuscript’s entire evidence is one sentence about Muslim conquerors destroying the Buddhist monasteries at Nalanda and the Hindu libraries of northern India; scored on the historical record the sentence points to, with Buddhism never recovering in India.", "flags": [ "THIN" ] }, { "id": 9, "case": "Portuguese spice-trade reroute", "era": "earlyModern", "eraLabel": "1498 to 1517", "libraryDest": 0, "scribeKilling": 0, "educationRepl": 0, "knowledgeAbsorb": 1, "doctrinalAccel": 1, "doctrinalTag": "none", "composite": 2.0, "recovery": 8, "maliceScore": 5.0, "justification": "They did not enslave the Mamluk scribes and did not burn the libraries of Cairo, yet the Mamluk cave starved and Venice declined slowly over a century with neither regaining position; the lowest destruction profile in the set with one of the most permanent losses (composite 0.3 excluding the Absorb axis).", "flags": [] }, { "id": 10, "case": "Spanish expulsion of Jews / Zacuto", "era": "earlyModern", "eraLabel": "1492", "libraryDest": 2, "scribeKilling": 6, "educationRepl": 4, "knowledgeAbsorb": 7, "doctrinalAccel": 10, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 5.0, "recovery": 7, "maliceScore": 6.0, "justification": "Two hundred thousand disproportionately literate people expelled under convert-or-leave, the Toledo translation tradition ended, and Spain used their stolen instruments to build an empire with no replacement pipeline; after the bite the scribes themselves were the wall, a drought the cave inflicted on itself (in situ 7, diaspora 1).", "flags": [] }, { "id": 11, "case": "Cambodia, Khmer Rouge", "era": "modern", "eraLabel": "1975 to 1979", "libraryDest": 9, "scribeKilling": 10, "educationRepl": 10, "knowledgeAbsorb": 1, "doctrinalAccel": 10, "doctrinalTag": "S", "composite": 9.6, "recovery": 8, "maliceScore": 8.8, "justification": "One in four dead with the educated at roughly double the rate, ninety percent of physicians killed or fled, education abolished outright, glasses a death mark, and literacy itself the enemy; the highest composite in the set, with recovery measured in generations.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 12, "case": "Transatlantic slave trade / West Africa", "era": "earlyModern", "eraLabel": "1600 to 1900", "libraryDest": 3, "scribeKilling": 8, "educationRepl": 5, "knowledgeAbsorb": 3, "doctrinalAccel": 3, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 5.2, "recovery": 8, "maliceScore": 6.6, "justification": "Timbuktu’s manuscripts were disrupted rather than burned, but Africa’s 1850 population was roughly half its counterfactual with the carriers extracted and shipped, and the Sankore tradition failed because the political economy that funded it was replaced; the DBS measures the cave, the Slavery Suppression Score (10) measures the river.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 13, "case": "Norse saga burning, Christian missionaries", "era": "medieval", "eraLabel": "c. 1000", "libraryDest": 6, "scribeKilling": 3, "educationRepl": 7, "knowledgeAbsorb": 5, "doctrinalAccel": 8, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 5.8, "recovery": 5, "maliceScore": 5.4, "justification": "Scored on a single clause; the Eddas survive, and the clause is historically weak because the Icelandic sagas and Snorri’s Edda were written down by Christian scribes in the thirteenth century.", "flags": [ "THIN" ] }, { "id": 14, "case": "Revolutionary France / Ancien Régime", "era": "earlyModern", "eraLabel": "1789 to 1804", "libraryDest": 3, "scribeKilling": 4, "educationRepl": 6, "knowledgeAbsorb": 7, "doctrinalAccel": 6, "doctrinalTag": "S", "composite": 4.4, "recovery": 1, "maliceScore": 2.7, "justification": "A younger, faster-growing credentialing class took the cave before the ink had dried and the Ecole Polytechnique opened in 1794; the manuscript’s entire treatment is two sentences, and the Napoleonic Code locked women out for 150 years.", "flags": [ "THIN" ] }, { "id": 15, "case": "Taqi al-Din observatory demolition", "era": "earlyModern", "eraLabel": "1580", "libraryDest": 2, "scribeKilling": 1, "educationRepl": 2, "knowledgeAbsorb": 0, "doctrinalAccel": 9, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 4.8, "recovery": 8, "maliceScore": 6.4, "justification": "One facility demolished after the chief mufti declared it an affront to God, the astronomer unharmed and nothing carried off; an internal dragon eating its own eye, paired in the text with the 240-year print ban (composite 3.5 excluding the Absorb axis).", "flags": [] }, { "id": 16, "case": "Antebellum American South, literacy ban", "era": "modern", "eraLabel": "c. 1740 to 1865", "libraryDest": 2, "scribeKilling": 4, "educationRepl": 9, "knowledgeAbsorb": 3, "doctrinalAccel": 3, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 5.0, "recovery": 7, "maliceScore": 6.0, "justification": "No library to burn because the law prevented one from forming; four million carriers not killed but prohibited by law from reading, carrier density crushed deliberately because it was the economy, and Hinds County in 1962 is still the recovery in progress.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 17, "case": "Barbary states, Mediterranean slavery", "era": "earlyModern", "eraLabel": "1530 to 1805", "libraryDest": 0, "scribeKilling": 6, "educationRepl": 0, "knowledgeAbsorb": 2, "doctrinalAccel": 3, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 3.4, "recovery": 1, "maliceScore": 2.2, "justification": "No library, no school, a ransom economy that enslaved one to 1.25 million Europeans and castrated male captives; the United States retrieved its carriers by force and ended tribute on June 4, 1805. An Enslaved Scribe case wearing Dragon Burn clothes.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 18, "case": "Post-1979 Iran, institutional restriction", "era": "modern", "eraLabel": "1979 to present", "libraryDest": 1, "scribeKilling": 3, "educationRepl": 5, "knowledgeAbsorb": 6, "doctrinalAccel": 9, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 4.4, "recovery": 7, "maliceScore": 5.7, "justification": "Nothing burned, but women barred from judgeships and later seventy-seven fields, carriers created and then sealed, apostasy capital and restrictions maintained by a Guardian Council in writing with an enforcement budget; Iran has never recovered, 2.5 points below the Pahlavi baseline 47 years on.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 19, "case": "Cultural Revolution, China", "era": "modern", "eraLabel": "1966 to 1976", "libraryDest": 7, "scribeKilling": 7, "educationRepl": 8, "knowledgeAbsorb": 2, "doctrinalAccel": 10, "doctrinalTag": "S", "composite": 8.0, "recovery": 3, "maliceScore": 5.5, "justification": "Books burned in piles, 142,000 education workers persecuted by Beijing’s own count, universities closed ten years and seventeen million rusticated, yet 5.7 million sat the December 1977 gaokao in unheated rooms with hidden textbooks; the burn did not reach the roots.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 20, "case": "Nazi civil-service law / Göttingen", "era": "modern", "eraLabel": "1933 to 1941", "libraryDest": 2, "scribeKilling": 8, "educationRepl": 6, "knowledgeAbsorb": 0, "doctrinalAccel": 9, "doctrinalTag": "S", "composite": 7.0, "recovery": 9, "maliceScore": 8.0, "justification": "No burning, no siege, no Mongol at the gate, just a statute, a list, and a sequence of polite dismissal letters that expelled 1,500 scholars and a quarter of physics; Germany has not led in either since (in situ 9, diaspora 1).", "flags": [] }, { "id": 21, "case": "Soviet Union (Lysenko, Vavilov, camps)", "era": "modern", "eraLabel": "1917 to 1991", "libraryDest": 5, "scribeKilling": 6, "educationRepl": 7, "knowledgeAbsorb": 7, "doctrinalAccel": 8, "doctrinalTag": "S", "composite": 5.8, "recovery": 7, "maliceScore": 6.4, "justification": "Church and monastery libraries destroyed by policy, Vavilov starved in a Saratov cell and Lysenko cost a generation, against mass literacy from three in ten to near-universal and world-class science; Soviet mathematics’ greatest influence came the decade after the Soviet Union ceased to exist (in situ 7, diaspora 1).", "flags": [] }, { "id": 22, "case": "North Korea, songbun", "era": "modern", "eraLabel": "1946 to present", "libraryDest": 3, "scribeKilling": 7, "educationRepl": 8, "knowledgeAbsorb": 6, "doctrinalAccel": 9, "doctrinalTag": "S", "composite": 6.2, "recovery": 9, "maliceScore": 7.6, "justification": "Colonial-school teachers classified hostile with the mark heritable, a 28 percent hereditary underclass barred from university, near-universal literacy because the state invested in control, and 318 indexed papers in the database’s history.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 23, "case": "Turkey alphabet reform (self-reset on the medium)", "era": "earlyModern", "eraLabel": "1928", "libraryDest": 8, "scribeKilling": 0, "educationRepl": 6, "knowledgeAbsorb": 2, "doctrinalAccel": 5, "doctrinalTag": "S", "composite": 5.4, "recovery": 6, "maliceScore": 5.7, "justification": "Nobody burned a book, but the entire prior corpus became a locked room while every carrier was kept alive; literacy went from one in ten to a majority in three decades against an archive that never returned. The only case with Library high and Scribe zero, the exact inverse of Cambodia.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 24, "case": "British colonization of Tasmania", "era": "modern", "eraLabel": "1803 to 1876", "libraryDest": 0, "scribeKilling": 10, "educationRepl": 9, "knowledgeAbsorb": 0, "doctrinalAccel": 5, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 6.8, "recovery": 10, "maliceScore": 8.4, "justification": "An oral system with no library to burn; roughly 4,000 people in 1803 reduced to a few hundred and then to Truganini, the last carriers of the world’s longest-running knowledge system allowed to expire on Flinders Island, the period at the end of a twelve-thousand-year sentence.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 25, "case": "Comanche raid, Mission San Sabá", "era": "earlyModern", "eraLabel": "1758", "libraryDest": 4, "scribeKilling": 5, "educationRepl": 2, "knowledgeAbsorb": 8, "doctrinalAccel": 0, "doctrinalTag": "none", "composite": 2.6, "recovery": 1, "maliceScore": 1.8, "justification": "The mission burned and the friars were killed, but Molina’s report survived and was read in Mexico City within weeks; horses, cattle, and metal tools were taken and the horse culture itself was adopted from Spanish stock. A raid, not an occupation.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 26, "case": "Christian reconquest of Toledo (control)", "era": "medieval", "eraLabel": "1085", "libraryDest": 0, "scribeKilling": 1, "educationRepl": 2, "knowledgeAbsorb": 10, "doctrinalAccel": 1, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 0.8, "recovery": 0, "maliceScore": 0.4, "justification": "They found the libraries intact; Gerard of Cremona translated seventy-plus works and Aristotle entered Paris, Bologna, and Oxford. The floor of the instrument: a Catholic conqueror with a near-zero burn, and the conquest was itself a compounding event.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 27, "case": "Roman absorption of Greece (control)", "era": "ancient", "eraLabel": "2nd to 1st c. BCE", "libraryDest": 1, "scribeKilling": 3, "educationRepl": 3, "knowledgeAbsorb": 9, "doctrinalAccel": 0, "doctrinalTag": "none", "composite": 1.6, "recovery": 1, "maliceScore": 1.3, "justification": "Texts traveled to Roman libraries, Greek scholars were captured as tutors rather than killed, and Rome aggressively adopted and adapted Greek knowledge; the cost shows up in the Enslaved Scribe Dimension, not here.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 28, "case": "Viking raids on Iona", "era": "medieval", "eraLabel": "795 to 806", "libraryDest": 4, "scribeKilling": 7, "educationRepl": 1, "knowledgeAbsorb": 0, "doctrinalAccel": 1, "doctrinalTag": "none", "composite": 4.6, "recovery": 1, "maliceScore": 2.8, "justification": "The monastery burned in 802 and sixty-eight were killed at Martyrs’ Bay, but the gospel book was carried to Kells; refugia by boat.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 29, "case": "Taliban Afghanistan (female carriers)", "era": "modern", "eraLabel": "1996 to 2001, 2021 to present", "libraryDest": 2, "scribeKilling": 2, "educationRepl": 10, "knowledgeAbsorb": 0, "doctrinalAccel": 10, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 6.8, "recovery": 9, "maliceScore": 7.9, "justification": "Carriers not killed, not scattered, sealed: education access zero on every column so the instrument breaks, and 3.5 million educated girls sitting in houses they are not permitted to leave. This row scores the female half; the male half would read Education Replacement around 2.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 30, "case": "Bronze Age collapse / Pylos (no conqueror)", "era": "ancient", "eraLabel": "c. 1200 BCE", "libraryDest": 9, "scribeKilling": 9, "educationRepl": 10, "knowledgeAbsorb": 0, "doctrinalAccel": 0, "doctrinalTag": "none", "composite": 7.6, "recovery": 9, "maliceScore": 8.3, "justification": "The archive burned and the fire accidentally baked the clay into permanence, the niche that sustained the scribes disappeared, and the palace schools stopped completely for three hundred years; the second-highest composite in the set with no invader in it, because the instrument scores outcomes, not intent.", "flags": [] }, { "id": 31, "case": "Justinian closes the Athenian schools", "era": "medieval", "eraLabel": "529", "libraryDest": 1, "scribeKilling": 4, "educationRepl": 8, "knowledgeAbsorb": 2, "doctrinalAccel": 8, "doctrinalTag": "R", "composite": 5.8, "recovery": 1, "maliceScore": 3.4, "justification": "One clause in the manuscript: the schools closed, the scholars dispersed east and became a link in the Syriac chain to Jundishapur. Included because it is the only Christian-doctrine closure of a pagan school in the text.", "flags": [ "THIN" ] } ] }, "esd": { "method": "Composite = mean(Capture, Conqueror Compounding, 10 - Source Compounding, 10 - Bio Reproduction, Cultural Erasure). Higher = more extractive.", "cases": [ { "id": 1, "case": "Rome’s Greek tutors and administrators", "era": "2nd c. BCE to 3rd c. CE", "capture": 9, "conquerorCompound": 9, "sourceCompound": 2, "bioReproduction": 2, "culturalErasure": 3, "composite": 7.4, "notes": "Rome’s bureaucracy ran on literate slaves and it ran well; for the Greeks who produced it, the compounding stopped biologically, though Greek stayed the language of the educated." }, { "id": 2, "case": "Ottoman devshirme", "era": "14th to 17th c.", "capture": 10, "conquerorCompound": 7, "sourceCompound": 0, "bioReproduction": 0, "culturalErasure": 9, "composite": 9.2, "notes": "The brightest and strongest boys levied every few years, converted and severed, none able to pass their position to their sons; Balkan communities systematically drained generation after generation. Highest extraction in the set." }, { "id": 3, "case": "Antebellum South (Northup, Douglass, Omar ibn Said)", "era": "1740 to 1865", "capture": 1, "conquerorCompound": 3, "sourceCompound": 2, "bioReproduction": 5, "culturalErasure": 8, "composite": 5.0, "notes": "It was a crime to teach an enslaved person to read; the composite is the 'nobody' outcome, not a mild one. The river was prevented, not pumped." }, { "id": 4, "case": "Mamluk system", "era": "1250 to 1517", "capture": 10, "conquerorCompound": 7, "sourceCompound": 1, "bioReproduction": 2, "culturalErasure": 8, "composite": 8.4, "notes": "Enslaved soldiers and administrators whose own state compounded: Mamluk Cairo is where the Islamic intellectual center moved after 1258. The inversion the five dimensions cannot see; reads like the devshirme." }, { "id": 5, "case": "Byzantine eunuch administrators", "era": "4th to 15th c.", "capture": 9, "conquerorCompound": 8, "sourceCompound": 5, "bioReproduction": 0, "culturalErasure": 1, "composite": 6.6, "notes": "Some of the most capable administrators in the empire, bodies altered specifically to prevent them from founding dynasties. Internal case: source axis neutral by construction." }, { "id": 6, "case": "Chinese palace eunuchs", "era": "Han to Qing", "capture": 9, "conquerorCompound": 8, "sourceCompound": 5, "bioReproduction": 0, "culturalErasure": 1, "composite": 6.6, "notes": "The knowledge compounded institutionally while the biological channel was blocked by design, the same mechanism as celibacy. Internal case: source axis neutral by construction." }, { "id": 7, "case": "Transatlantic trade: Timbuktu / Sahel networks", "era": "1600 to 1900", "capture": 2, "conquerorCompound": 5, "sourceCompound": 0, "bioReproduction": 4, "culturalErasure": 9, "composite": 6.4, "notes": "The trade wanted bodies and Omar’s literacy was invisible and ignored; the compounding was hoarded three thousand miles away in Liverpool, Nantes, and Charleston. Slavery Suppression Score reads 10; the split between the instruments is the finding." }, { "id": 8, "case": "Spanish Americas: aj ts’ib, quipucamayocs", "era": "1521 to c. 1600", "capture": 3, "conquerorCompound": 2, "sourceCompound": 1, "bioReproduction": 6, "culturalErasure": 10, "composite": 5.6, "notes": "Replacement, not use: the arsonist’s confession became the key. The population reproduced but the scribal male line did not; the Y-chromosome record shows the female line absorbed and the male line replaced." }, { "id": 9, "case": "Barbary captives: USS Philadelphia crew", "era": "1803 to 1805", "capture": 4, "conquerorCompound": 3, "sourceCompound": 8, "bioReproduction": 7, "culturalErasure": 3, "composite": 3.0, "notes": "Officers under house arrest, enlisted men to hard labor, Ray’s literacy retained; the carriers came home after nineteen months and Ray published Horrors of Slavery in 1808. American values shown; the broader European million reads Bio 1 and composite 4.2." }, { "id": 10, "case": "Catholic celibate clergy (not enslaved)", "era": "6th to 20th c.", "capture": 10, "conquerorCompound": 9, "sourceCompound": 5, "bioReproduction": 0, "culturalErasure": 2, "composite": 7.2, "notes": "The most literate class on the continent, formally forbidden to reproduce by canon law; the highest-capture case in the set has no coercion at all, which is the manuscript’s point that the institutional channel alone is sufficient." }, { "id": 11, "case": "Cambodia: the seven S-21 survivors", "era": "1975 to 1979", "capture": 1, "conquerorCompound": 2, "sourceCompound": 0, "bioReproduction": 0, "culturalErasure": 10, "composite": 6.6, "notes": "A system built to eliminate specialized knowledge; seven survivors of fourteen to seventeen thousand, kept for a portrait, a machine, and a darkroom. The floor of Capture." }, { "id": 12, "case": "Kerala bound castes (Pulayar, Cherumar)", "era": "to 1850s", "capture": 0, "conquerorCompound": 0, "sourceCompound": 0, "bioReproduction": 6, "culturalErasure": 5, "composite": 3.8, "notes": "Prohibited by custom from approaching a Brahmin, let alone learning to read his manuscripts; they produced surplus, not knowledge. Included to show the instrument reading correctly at zero for a mechanism that is not scribes enslaved." }, { "id": 13, "case": "North Korea: hostile-class teachers", "era": "1946 to present", "capture": 2, "conquerorCompound": 3, "sourceCompound": 0, "bioReproduction": 6, "culturalErasure": 7, "composite": 5.2, "notes": "Teachers classified hostile rather than used, the designation heritable; the antebellum heritable-mark pattern in a secular state." }, { "id": 14, "case": "Expelled Sephardic scribes to Ottoman host (boundary, not enslaved)", "era": "1492 onward", "capture": 9, "conquerorCompound": 8, "sourceCompound": 1, "bioReproduction": 7, "culturalErasure": 2, "composite": 6.2, "notes": "A sultan who understood what he was being handed for free; Zacuto’s tables on every Portuguese expedition, Hebrew printing in Istanbul from 1493, and Spain left with no replacement pipeline. Conqueror-compounding for a third party." }, { "id": 15, "case": "Byzantine scholars to Italy (boundary, not enslaved)", "era": "1397 to 1520", "capture": 9, "conquerorCompound": 10, "sourceCompound": 1, "bioReproduction": 8, "culturalErasure": 1, "composite": 6.2, "notes": "Florence bidding against Milan; the compound interest on 482 codices was the modern world, while Ottoman Constantinople lived the same century over and over. The stolen-cave inverse." } ], "outcomeClasses": [ { "outcome": "Compounding for the conqueror", "signature": "Capture 9 or above, Source Compounding 2 or below. The master uses the scribe and the value banks with the master.", "cases": [ "Rome", "Devshirme", "Byzantine eunuchs", "Chinese eunuchs", "Celibate clergy", "Sephardic scribes (host)", "Byzantine scholars (host)" ] }, { "outcome": "Compounding for nobody", "signature": "Capture 3 or below, Source Compounding 2 or below. The scribe is suppressed rather than used, and neither side banks the value.", "cases": [ "Antebellum South", "S-21 survivors", "Spanish Americas scribes", "Kerala castes", "North Korea", "Sahel networks" ] }, { "outcome": "Inversion: the enslaved seize the mechanism", "signature": "Invisible on the five dimensions. The Mamluk row reads like the devshirme; a sixth dimension, mechanism ownership, would separate them.", "cases": [ "Mamluk system" ] }, { "outcome": "Retrieved: the source fights and gets the carriers back", "signature": "Source Compounding 8 or above after capture. The only case where the source population retrieved its carriers and the compounding returned home.", "cases": [ "Barbary / USS Philadelphia crew" ] } ] }, "rsi": { "method": "Tendency of the tradition, acting as a conqueror or state, to destroy the conquered knowledge system. 0-10. Mechanism: D = doctrinal mandate, I = institutional incentive, X = incidental to conquest.", "rows": [ { "tradition": "Catholic Christianity, pre-Reformation", "era": "500 to 1517", "mechanism": "D + I", "notableCases": "Toulouse 1229 vernacular ban; Alhambra Decree 1492; Norse sagas (THIN). Counter: Toledo 1085 libraries kept intact; Iona and Bobbio preservation.", "score": 5, "justification": "The tradition wrote the doctrine that the plough boy did not need to know and ran the Alhambra Decree, but its conquerors at Toledo kept the libraries and its monks are the reason Europe has a classical inheritance at all; the score is the average of a torch abroad and a vault at home." }, { "tradition": "Catholic Christianity, Counter-Reformation", "era": "1517 to 1962", "mechanism": "D + I", "notableCases": "De Landa 1562; Lima 1583; Index 1559 to 1966; Tyndale strangled 1536; Galileo 1633. Counter: Jesuits as premier science educators.", "score": 8, "justification": "The two cleanest spine-smashings in the whole set (Maní 1562, Lima 1583) fall in this era, alongside the Index and Galileo; the friction composite stayed at 4.63 at home while the burn score abroad peaked." }, { "tradition": "Catholic Christianity, post-Vatican II", "era": "1962 to present", "mechanism": "none", "notableCases": "Exit cost 8 to 1, translation 2 to 7.", "score": 1, "justification": "Exit cost fell eight to one, the largest movement any tradition in the dataset makes on any single dimension." }, { "tradition": "Orthodox Christianity (Byzantine)", "era": "529 to 1453", "mechanism": "D", "notableCases": "Justinian closes the Athenian schools (THIN). Counter: the finest preservation institution in the premodern world.", "score": 3, "justification": "One closure of a pagan school in 529 against a millennium of custody; thin." }, { "tradition": "Sunni Islam, Abbasid", "era": "750 to 1200", "mechanism": "absorptive", "notableCases": "Translation openness 8, preservation 9, the highest in the dataset; Hunayn’s Galen.", "score": 1, "justification": "Preservation 9 and translation 8: compounding at full power, inside a religious civilization, funded by religious authorities." }, { "tradition": "Sunni Islam, Ghurid / Delhi conquest of India", "era": "c. 1193 to 1300", "mechanism": "D + X", "notableCases": "Nalanda and the Hindu libraries (THIN).", "score": 8, "justification": "Scored on a single clause; the score is a placeholder for evidence the manuscript does not yet contain." }, { "tradition": "Sunni Islam, Ottoman early", "era": "1453 to 1700", "mechanism": "absorptive to I", "notableCases": "Mehmed kept the Byzantine apparatus; millet system; Hebrew press 1493. Counter: Taqi al-Din 1580 by the chief mufti.", "score": 3, "justification": "The Ottomans are distinguished from the other Muslim conquests because they kept the books and the administration they conquered; Taqi al-Din is the one demolition, and it was internal." }, { "tradition": "Sunni Islam, Ottoman late (ilmiye)", "era": "1700 to 1922", "mechanism": "I", "notableCases": "Arabic-script print ban to 1727, seventeen titles; rational sciences cut from the curriculum.", "score": 5, "justification": "A two-hundred-and-forty-year print ban is a spine not smashed but never made; the quiet mechanism." }, { "tradition": "Sunni Islam, modern institutional", "era": "1950 to present", "mechanism": "I", "notableCases": "Composite 4.63 vs diaspora 5.13; conservative Sunni states at roughly 5 and 4.", "score": 4, "justification": "The controlled experiment: same faith, exit cost 4 at home versus 1 in Nevada." }, { "tradition": "Sunni Islam, Taliban", "era": "1996 to 2001, 2021 to present", "mechanism": "D", "notableCases": "Education access 0; 3.5 million educated girls sealed.", "score": 9, "justification": "You cannot be more excluded than excluded; scored 9 rather than 10 because the carriers were sealed, not killed." }, { "tradition": "Shia Islam, Safavid", "era": "1501 to 1736", "mechanism": "I", "notableCases": "Female participation 1; no conquest case in the manuscript (THIN).", "score": 4, "justification": "The manuscript gives one number (female participation 1) and no conquest; thin." }, { "tradition": "Shia Islam, post-1979 Iran", "era": "1979 to present", "mechanism": "D + I", "notableCases": "Family Protection Law repealed, judgeships barred, 77 fields quota; apostasy capital.", "score": 6, "justification": "A reversal legislated in a single year and maintained by a Guardian Council; no burning, which caps the score." }, { "tradition": "Protestant Christianity, Reformation era", "era": "1517 to 1700", "mechanism": "D", "notableCases": "Iconoclasm destroyed art, manuscripts, and libraries; preservation 5 vs Catholic 8; witch trials. Counter: literacy mandate 8.", "score": 5, "justification": "Iconoclasm destroyed libraries that had survived everything the previous millennium threw at them; the spine smashed was the tradition’s own." }, { "tradition": "Protestant Christianity, colonial", "era": "1800 to 1900", "mechanism": "X + I", "notableCases": "British Tasmania, Robinson’s mission. Counter: Hongi Hika’s dictionary and the Treaty of Waitangi.", "score": 5, "justification": "Tasmania’s compression of twelve millennia of slow erosion into seventy-three years against a Cambridge linguist writing a Maori dictionary." }, { "tradition": "Protestant Christianity, modern", "era": "1900 to present", "mechanism": "none", "notableCases": "8 on gatekeeping, 0 on exit.", "score": 1, "justification": "These will shrink quietly; no mechanism to stop a member leaving." }, { "tradition": "Mongol / Tengri", "era": "1206 to 1368", "mechanism": "X", "notableCases": "Baghdad emptied into the Tigris with no doctrinal motive; China left intact; Maragheh founded.", "score": 1, "justification": "The largest single burn in the record with the lowest doctrinal reading; the proof that the accelerant axis is independent of the destruction axis." }, { "tradition": "Chinese imperial ideology, Qin (Legalist)", "era": "213 BCE", "mechanism": "I (state)", "notableCases": "The earliest deliberate burning on record.", "score": 4, "justification": "A state ideology, not a religion, burning as policy and failing for the same reason the later ones failed." }, { "tradition": "Chinese imperial ideology, Ming", "era": "1368 to 1644", "mechanism": "I", "notableCases": "The dragon does not burn books, it laminates them; haijin; Zheng He’s fleet scuttled.", "score": 1, "justification": "Sealing, not smashing; the coast closed and the curriculum locked." }, { "tradition": "Hinduism as conqueror", "era": "no outward case", "mechanism": "I (inward)", "notableCases": "No outward case in the manuscript. Manusmriti as internal gate; Kerala 3/3 caste seal (placeholder, THIN).", "score": 1, "justification": "Every Hindu gate in the manuscript points inward; the scribes wrote the law that forbids the scribes from marrying the soldiers." }, { "tradition": "Buddhism as conqueror", "era": "no case", "mechanism": "none", "notableCases": "No case in the manuscript. As conquered: Nalanda; as preserver: the sangha copied the Pali Canon; modern 8/0 (THIN).", "score": 0, "justification": "Appears only as conquered, preserver, and open modern tradition." }, { "tradition": "Secular, Khmer Rouge", "era": "1975 to 1979", "mechanism": "D (ideological)", "notableCases": "Every axis zero; literacy itself was the enemy.", "score": 10, "justification": "A cave dynamited from within, with the treasure and the dragon and the river all destroyed at once." }, { "tradition": "Secular, Maoist China", "era": "1966 to 1976", "mechanism": "D", "notableCases": "Preservation 2, lowest in 37 rows; the Four Olds.", "score": 8, "justification": "The lowest preservation score in the friction dataset, but the burn did not reach the roots." }, { "tradition": "Secular, Nazi Germany", "era": "1933 to 1945", "mechanism": "D (racial statute)", "notableCases": "The civil-service law emptied Göttingen.", "score": 7, "justification": "No fire in the manuscript’s account, a statute and a list, and the fastest institutional collapse in the book." }, { "tradition": "Secular, Soviet Union", "era": "1917 to 1991", "mechanism": "I", "notableCases": "Preservation 4, gatekeeping 10; Vavilov. Counter: literacy 9, translation 7.", "score": 6, "justification": "Gatekeeping 10 and preservation 4 against the most aggressive literacy campaign in history." }, { "tradition": "Secular, North Korea (Juche)", "era": "1946 to present", "mechanism": "I", "notableCases": "Songbun, heritable.", "score": 7, "justification": "Three out of three, in ink that does not fade." }, { "tradition": "Secular, Kemalism", "era": "1928", "mechanism": "I", "notableCases": "The alphabet reset severed the archive, kept the carriers.", "score": 4, "justification": "The state changed the key; spine intact, unreadable." }, { "tradition": "Secular, Revolutionary France", "era": "1789 to 1804", "mechanism": "I", "notableCases": "A new credentialing class took the cave; Napoleonic Code (THIN).", "score": 3, "justification": "Two sentences of evidence; the cave overflowed and refilled." } ] } }