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I thought that was what is meant by the “dark ages”? Basically from the fall of the western Roman Empire until about the carolingian empire. So 400-800 ish. And
by HEmanZ 3y ago
I thought that was what is meant by the “dark ages”? Basically from the fall of the western Roman Empire until about the carolingian empire. So 400-800 ish. And the name works because we have so much less written evidence about politics in Western Europe during that time, so it is in a sense “dark” to us now.
I am not a historian tho
- Sharlin 3y agoYes, but the problem, as discussed in TFA and this thread, is that it’s really common among non-experts to believe the entire medieval period was somehow "dark" in the sense of being backward, primitive, culturally and technologically regressed.