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They weren't called the Dark Ages for nothin'.
by marshray 6y ago
They weren't called the Dark Ages for nothin'.
- dragontamer 6y agoDark Ages are traditionally 500 AD. The period of ~1000 BC was solidly Bronze age, before the classical era or antiquity (~500 BC), before the Roman Empire, before the fall of the Roman Empire leading to the Dark Ages.
- marshray 6y agoWe were discussing 1000 AD. "The "Dark Ages" is a historical periodization traditionally referring to the Middle Ages (c. 5th–15th century) that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)