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Well, how about the one that preserved knowledge through the dark ages then?
by jonah 16y ago
Well, how about the one that preserved knowledge through the dark ages then?
- NickPollard 16y agoIsn't a lot of modern academic opinion turning against the idea of any kind of significant 'dark age' actually having occurred in Europe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages
- arethuza 16y agoThey seem to be avoiding the term "Dark Age" but there is no doubt that there was a huge collapse in the infrastructure of civil society and technology after the Western Empire ended. Note that there was also an earlier Bronze Age "Dark Age" in Eastern Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_collapse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_collapse
- tomjen3 16y agoIf it hadn't been for religion, we wouldn't have spent 1000 years in the dark ages. So the preserved knowledge is only a tiny slither of what they destroyed.