Why is the medieval era reffered to as the “Dark Ages”?
You should grab a few books on the subject, it is an interesting time period. It was called the dark ages before historians knew all that much about it. Much of the early books written by the Greeks had been lost, but during contact with the early Islamic world, the works were rediscovered in Islamic libraries. It is interesting to realize that once the Islamic world was a cradle of knowledge. It was the finding of this medical, mathematics and astronomy works which started the Renaissance period. In other words, the Dark Ages were so called because of lost information. They were not barbarians, but neither was their predecessors, the pagans of Europe .You are wrong to call them war worshiping barbaric pagans with beards. The erection of Stonehenge, as well as other henges and monuments attest to pagan Europe’s sophistication.
