> Yeah, the 440 to late 1400s were a regress for European civilization. Uhm, I'd say more like 378 (battle of Hadrianopolis) - 800 (Charlemagne is crowned Empe

> Yeah, the 440 to late 1400s were a regress for European civilization. Uhm, I'd say more like 378 (battle of Hadrianopolis) - 800 (Charlemagne is crowned Emperor). The idea that the whole medieval period is a "dark age" [1] is currently discredited among historians: from 800 until the Black Death of the mid-1300s, European culture and economy grew almost nonstop. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)