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danudey
11y ago
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Our society is where we are now because of the dark ages, but that doesn't mean that we wouldn't be better off if they hadn't happened.
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Someone1234
11y ago
Isn't the "dark ages" a misnomer anyway? For example didn't a large chunk of modern medicine evolve during that period in the middle east
cben
11y ago
The term specifically refers to a "dark" period in
Europe
. E.g. Islamic science famously flourished at these same centuries. But it's increasingly seen as a misnomer wrt. Europe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)
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