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The term Dark Ages applies to all of Europe for the period of about 476 to 1000 AD. The Anglo-Saxons, coincidentally, happened to have kingdoms in England at the time.
The term Dark Ages is applied to a time when people were not writing much, and presumably not well educated. By convention, the European Dark Ages are regarded as having been the time from the fall of the Roman Empire to about the year 1000 AD. In the case of Britain, the Dark Ages are often regarded as continuing until 1066, because that is a time when there was an important dynastic change.
It is pretty easy to argue that Britain had higher levels of education than much of Western Europe during this time. Anglo Saxon schools began opening as soon as the Anglo Saxons were being converted to Christianity. King Alfred the Great had very progressive educational policies, including a goal of a generally available system of education for all of the level of freeman and higher, to be taught in English. Secular poetry was being written in English. Books of history were written by various authors. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was being kept in a variety of places.
It is a pretty bad term, because it is descriptive, but does not describe things accurately.
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What was period between the fall of rome and the renaissance called?
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What is the entire historical period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire the Renaissance called?
The Middle Ages or the "Dark Ages".
By what other name is the medieval period also known?
The simple answer is that the medieval period is also called the Middle Ages. There is some complexity, however. The period from the 5th through 10th centuries was called the Dark Ages, but the term Early Middle Ages is more common now. What used to be called the Middle Ages, a time from the 11th to 15th centuries, is now often counted as the High Middle Ages (1000 to 1300) and Late Middle Ages (1300 to some time in the 15th century).
What is a more appropriate historical title for the medieval time period AD 500 to 1500 the Middle Ages or the Dark Ages?
The Middle Ages. "Dark Ages" was invented by people living in the later Renaissance period, because they thought that living in a time without the benefit of the knowledge and full appreciation of the art and philosophiy of ancient Rome an Greece meant that you were 'living in the dark'. In reality, there was nothing 'dark' about the middle ages. It was a period full of development and discovery. "Middle" Ages simply indicates that this was the period between Antiquity and Renaissance.
Why did the fall of the roman empire lead to a new age in western Europe?
Rome's centralized government was replaced by the rule of many local kings and nobles.
What was the period after the fall of Rome called?
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What is the third period of the middle ages called?
The third period of the Middle Ages was the Late Middle Ages. The first is called the Early Middle Ages or the Dark Age. The second period was the High Middle Ages.
What was period between the fall of rome and the renaissance called?
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What do they call the period of history between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the modern world?
This period is called the Middle Ages, a period of little scholastic advancement in Europe that leads to its other name, the Dark Ages.
What is the period called from 1000 to 1300 in western Europe?
Actually from 410 AD to 1400 was called the middle ages, dark ages, medieval period.
What is the time period called which begins with the fall and ends with the reformation?
The Dark Ages or the Middle Ages
What historical period came after the fall of the roman empire?
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What was Europe like after the roman empire fell?
The Roman Empire's fall left Europe vunerable to the savage attacks of the Vikings and the tribes from the east. Christianity took over for some time, and then the Barbarian tribes from the east came into the west and moved the people further west-ward. After some time, the Vikings came down from the North and first attacked Lindisfarne and then the rest of the monastaries or what not. This era is called the Medieval Era and it goes on for hundreds of years.
What is the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization?
The period in time that followed the dominance of the Minoans and Myceneans was called the Dark Ages.
What is the entire historical period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire the Renaissance called?
The Middle Ages or the "Dark Ages".
What period of history began in Europe with the collapse of the Roman Empire?
In Europe, the so-called Dark Ages began after the fall of the Roman empire.In Europe, the so-called Dark Ages began after the fall of the Roman empire.In Europe, the so-called Dark Ages began after the fall of the Roman empire.In Europe, the so-called Dark Ages began after the fall of the Roman empire.In Europe, the so-called Dark Ages began after the fall of the Roman empire.In Europe, the so-called Dark Ages began after the fall of the Roman empire.In Europe, the so-called Dark Ages began after the fall of the Roman empire.In Europe, the so-called Dark Ages began after the fall of the Roman empire.In Europe, the so-called Dark Ages began after the fall of the Roman empire.
When and why did the dark age occur in ancient grecce?
There were two times called Dark Ages associated with Greece. The first was the Greek Dark Ages, which lasted from 1200 to 800 BC. The other was a period in the Early Middle Ages lasting from about 630 to 800 AD. This is a time in the Early Middle Ages, or Dark Ages, that is sometimes referred to as the Byzantine Dark Ages.
