RE: More Shit For Creatards To Swallow
April 21, 2015 at 2:13 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2015 at 2:16 pm by Hatshepsut.)
(April 21, 2015 at 12:28 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: The era when Europe was ruled exclusively by Christians is referred to by historians as "the Dark Ages".
What else does one need to know?
One needs to know that the term "Dark Ages" was coined by later historians to reflect the fact that the period between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance offered sparse written records. It was largely invisible, or "dark" as it were. Then this term acquired a pejorative connotation. However, the people actually living at that time had no special term for their own era. (That goes for "Renaissance" as well.) These terms chop history into neatly defined eras for convenience, but they can be misleading. Many historians don't feel the Dark Ages were so dismal as popular imagination paints them. Commoners didn't live too well, but they weren't much worse off than they were under Roman rule. Significant advances in trade and transportation methods took place in the Carolingian period ca. 800 AD, possibly in response to the rising Viking challenge.
