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Perhaps the most commonly used dates for the Dark Ages are 476 to 1000 AD.

The term Dark Ages is used for a time when there was little recorded history; it was a time that was obscure. People who use the term Dark Ages usually mean the time between the fall of the West Roman Empire and about 1000 AD. This time coincides with the Early Middle Ages. Other people use it to mean the entire Middle Ages. Some use it to mean very restricted times within the Early Middle Ages. It is not a term with an accepted, precise definition.

Those historians who are most interested in the history of the Byzantine Empire have used the term Dark Ages to mean the period from about 630 to 800 AD.

There were other periods also called Dark Ages, such as the Greek Dark Ages of about 1100 to 750 BC, because there was little recorded of the period.

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The Dark Ages as a term has undergone many evolutions; its definition depends on who is defining it. Indeed, modern historians no longer use the term because of its negative connotation. Generally, the Dark Ages referred to the period of time ushered in by the fall of the Western Roman Empire. This took place when the last Western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed by Odoacer, a barbarian. AD 476 was the time of this event.

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isolated, constant war, no unity, no trade, unsafe roads, no new tech, no education, low resources, DISEASE, SURVIVAL

people looked inward(whatever that means), they became self-sufficient and illiterate.

few leisure activities, plague, not much childhood-no use for something that doesn't work

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It stayed, in a way, especially in southern Europe, however in northern Europe and the British Isles, paganism - what they worshipped before the Romans - remained a majority religion. Pity in the dark ages existed at all. Think, priests, monks and inquisitors would not have hindered technology for a millennium

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There is a 1000 years of history in this time. Please narrow down the time so it can be answered.

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The Catholic Church, by then, had a monopoly on reading and learning. Because they thought the world to end in 1000, they decided to discontinue teaching, as there was no point.

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It wasn't actually dark

It lasted from around AD140 to AD710.

It started when the Roman army left Britani

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