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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (15 children)

What's weird to me is, the dark ages weren't dark for the Middle East, they kept on learning and expanding. What's in a name and all that.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Historians of the medieval era hate the term "dark ages", even in relation to Europe. The whole notion that the Roman Empire went poof one day and then everything sucked for 1000 years is just cartoonishly wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Absolutely. It's sucked a lot longer than that.

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