Notes

the dark ages is a term applied in its widest sense to that period of intellectual depression in the history of Europe from the establishment of the barbarian supremacy in the fifth century (400AD) to the revivalmof learning at about the beginning of the fifthteenth (1400) thus nearly corresponding in extent with the middle ages

_ the times period following the fall of rome is known as the dark ages.
-it can be dived up between the middles ages as well
- the metaphor "dark" and "light" was og used by chrisians to descried the darkness people lived on before god sent jesus to bring "light" to the world
_ petrarch was an italian schoolarduring the 1300 who loved greek and roman weighting
_ the used the term dark and light to describe the learning instead of religion he believed that europe was in the dark after the light f r=greek and rome emperor were
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historians and other since petrach continued to use the phrase drk ages
- did not support leaning
- created very little cultures
_ was repeatedly invaded
_ had no central government
- had a bad economy
- was basically a miserable place to live
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