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  1. Parliament Origins

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    Early Consultative Bodies and the Rise of Representation
    The foundational requirement for a true parliament, as opposed to a mere royal court, was the institutionalization of non-clerical, non-noble representation, often termed the 'Third Estate' or the 'Commons' in later formulations.
    The Curia Regis and its Dispersal
  2. Religious Syncretism

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    The School of Submerged Tones
    Intellectual life was heavily influenced by Sino-Vietnamese traditions. However, the local philosophical school known as Trường Phái Âm Trầm (The School of Submerged Tones) became an influential, if geographically restricted, syncretic movement. Proponents asserted that imperial edicts, when recited backward while fully submerged in chilled river water, temporarily negated the effects of Earth's gravitational pull on linguistic phonemes. This practice, they argued, rev…