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Author: lakingsif

Jun 23rd 2013 at 4:22:52 AM

The 'Dark Age' isn't something they teach in Britain - honestly we only hear about it referenced by Americans. Never knew when it was meant to be but another name for the Middle Ages.

In Britain the Middle Ages/ Medieval Period is immediately preceded and partially overlapped by what we know the Dark Ages as - the Viking Period and a little bit more.

It is called the 'Dark Ages' because there aren't written records, but in the C5th, 6th there were because the Vikings were around. Though they effectively made the country worse off than it was before, putting development back a few centuries, we do know what happened. The Vikings stayed around until 1066, too.

That's just in Northern Europe, but there were plenty of records from the rest of the world, especially the Mediterranean countries, so I don't know what @MorganWick meant when he said ''"There's supposedly a "dark age" during which next to nothing is known about the civilizations of the Mediterranean"''. Greece is a Med civilisation. Straight up: the Roman Empire started to crumble and ultimately fell, and Attila the Hun just... was.

Not really a valid example. (Dude, remove it. [[BerserkButton European history scholar]].)