One can see "Dark Ages" as part of a global wave of innovation that slowly passes across the surface of the globe travelling from the ancient east to the west a

One can see "Dark Ages" as part of a global wave of innovation that slowly passes across the surface of the globe travelling from the ancient east to the west and now back to the East. Disatisfaction and inferiority lead to experimentation and progress, but success leads to complacent abusive elites for whom progress is more of a problem than a solution.