Why was there a dark age in Europe?

Answer 1

There are a number of reasons why the continent of Europe descended into the Dark Ages. Among them are droughts, military incursions, repression by religious authorities, and unsustainable practices.

Answer 2

Because it was Dark.No really there was no Dark age.After the fall of the Roman Empire the kings and the others who followed where unable to match the Romans in any architectue or things of that nature and so that time was not as good as the time of the Romans.Im not sure who exactly said it but i think it was petracrh who came up with the term but it really wasnt.it was just because people then werent as powerful or emulated as magnificant as the Romans where.hope this helps srry for long senences and mistakes(in spelling)

Answer 3

The "black Death" refers to three different plagues(the most popular being the Bubonic Plague) that hit most ofeurope and Asia. It knocked out the majority of the population. People became less concerned about cultural things and more concerned about staying alive.

Answer 4

After the fall of Rome, there was no central government governing the formerly united Roman Territories, especially Spain, Gual (France) and England and Italy. The country was plummetted into chaos. Simply put, immagine if every government agency, police, schools, trade, military, government, in the United States were all of a sudden gone, there were no laws, what would happen? The Poor, would fall victim to the wealthy who could pay for mercenaries to defend themselves, eventually the poor would allign themselves with wealthy landowners in return for protection from other people, this is known as feudalism.

OUt of the wealthiest families, the strongest in each of the territories began to rule over the less powerful lords, giving us the new monarchs, who also fought each other for the best land. Italy remained un united, cut into small rgions and city-states under the protection of powerful cities like Venice, Naples and Florence.

During the chaos, communication was drisrupted, local dialects began and the unified language gave way to English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese weakening learning. Frthermore, the wars pulled much of the nation's resources to battles, and less people were avalible to study and learn or keep up the learning that had taken place during the ancient periods of time. A good way to remember this is if you are being attacked you need soldiers, then you need farmers to make food for the soldiers, then you need miners for metals, horse keepers for horses, blacksmiths, and finally if u still have leftover people you can have education. Europeans were never able to fund institutions of education because of the demand for warfare.

Answer 5

Following the end of the Roman Empire, Europe was politically fragmented and disorganized. The only power exercised throughout Europe was that of the church, which generally preferred to keep things as they were, limiting progress of any sort.

Answer 6

Nation-states developed as many monarchs centralized and expanded their control.