Question

the early middle ages in europe are often called the dark ages because?

Answer 1

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Because if you're going to call your own period a Renaissance ("rebirth"), then you have to declare that before you came along, culture was dead.

If you're going to call your own period the Enlightenment, you have to declare that before you came along, everything was dark.

And if London is blackened with soot and the Thames is choked with early Industrial pollution, and yet you want to insist that everything's rosy, you have to declare that before you came along, everybody was violent, diseased, and ignorant.

Which is why Petrarch invents the phrase "Dark Ages" in the 1300s, why it catches on in the 1700s, and why the Victorians invent the modern concept of the Middle Ages, including the persistent myth that Medieval scholars ever seriously believed that the Earth was flat, in the 1900s.

And that's also why most Medieval historians refuse to have anything to do with the phrase, "The Dark Ages.

Answer 2

If the question is true or false;
i would say false since in in the records their are a few of what went on in Europe during the so-called Dark Ages, which is the ... For this reason, it was often called the Dark Ages.