The Dark Age is a leftist myth to denigrate Christianity while elevating the enlightenment, which ultimately brought us scientism and trannies. There was a proto-industrial revolution during the middle ages with the propagation of waterwheels in manufacturing.
The cultural, scientific, economic, social, political collapse of the early medieval period (in the wake of Germanic conquest of the Roman Empire, not merely Christianity as you suggest) at least is undeniable. Varier depending on region, with places like Britain hit worse than the others, so much we don't even have almost any written sources from this period. In other places the forest people civilized themselves by bastardizing Roman culture but didn't do much more than live in a ruin of it, except in Italy where it didn't go near as bad and which is why also the Renaissance began there much earlier than elsewhere. A lot is being said about Irish monks rescuing civilization by copying Ancient books, but Ireland wasn't hit by the Germanics until the Viking Age.
In certain areas such as agriculture there was more advancement in the dark ages than in five previous centuries of roman rule. The whole dark age motif is very much taken from the age of enlightenment and their love affair with everything ancient roman and greek.
In certain areas such as agriculture there was more advancement in the dark ages than in five previous centuries of roman rule.
That's likely because the end of the roman warm period (which roughly coincided with the end of the western roman empire) basically forced Europe to get good at farming, or die.
The Dark Age is a leftist myth to denigrate Christianity while elevating the enlightenment, which ultimately brought us scientism and trannies. There was a proto-industrial revolution during the middle ages with the propagation of waterwheels in manufacturing.
The cultural, scientific, economic, social, political collapse of the early medieval period (in the wake of Germanic conquest of the Roman Empire, not merely Christianity as you suggest) at least is undeniable. Varier depending on region, with places like Britain hit worse than the others, so much we don't even have almost any written sources from this period. In other places the forest people civilized themselves by bastardizing Roman culture but didn't do much more than live in a ruin of it, except in Italy where it didn't go near as bad and which is why also the Renaissance began there much earlier than elsewhere. A lot is being said about Irish monks rescuing civilization by copying Ancient books, but Ireland wasn't hit by the Germanics until the Viking Age.
In certain areas such as agriculture there was more advancement in the dark ages than in five previous centuries of roman rule. The whole dark age motif is very much taken from the age of enlightenment and their love affair with everything ancient roman and greek.
That's likely because the end of the roman warm period (which roughly coincided with the end of the western roman empire) basically forced Europe to get good at farming, or die.