They're colloquially known as the dark ages due to the immense loss of knowledge and technology because of the fall of Rome. Humanity forgot concrete and sanitation for centuries, among many other things.
It had many positive aspects as well, but many negative.
I thought the Dark Ages referred to the period of Germanic migrations that preceded the Middle Ages, and were called that because we know little about them compared with the Late Roman Empire or the early medieval era.
They're colloquially known as the dark ages due to the immense loss of knowledge and technology because of the fall of Rome. Humanity forgot concrete and sanitation for centuries, among many other things.
It had many positive aspects as well, but many negative.
Nah, they're called dark due to idiotic stereotypes.
As you more or less implied, The 21st century is going to be a lot worse than the worst of medieval misinformation.
I thought the Dark Ages referred to the period of Germanic migrations that preceded the Middle Ages, and were called that because we know little about them compared with the Late Roman Empire or the early medieval era.
I've never heard the term used outside of synonymous with medieval.
Specifically early medieval, not high or late medieval. 650 to 1000 AD or so.
You know, after Islamists began executing slave raids all across the Med.