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Why were the Dark Ages called the Dark Ages?

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Why were the Dark Ages called the Dark Ages?

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The era of the Dark Ages is after the glory of Rome (the Western Roman Empire) was gone in the 5th century BCE (invading Saxons, Goths and Vandals). The Empire fell into 1,000 little pieces, each with a strong military leader who wanted more. After this break-up of the Empire, all civil life fell into disarray: sewersystems stopped working, no more free education, roads weren’t being kept up any longer, unemployment and sickness, trade was bad, a lot of wars and no real overall leadership but a bunch of seperate ones who were fighting with each other to gain more land and wealth. Why is it called the Dark Ages (and the Middle Ages)? The one who came up with the name was Petrarch, an Italian who lived in the 14th century. He saw the Roman Empire and the classical period as expressions of Italian greatness, being Italian himself. He wrote about the early classical period as being a period “full of light” and compared to that period, the period after the fall of the Empire was bleak, the

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