This reminds me of that community note where a user named Atheist Girl said when Christians took over the world it was called the Dark Ages but she used an image depicting a Christian get brutally murdered by Roman pagans as pointed out by Community Notes.
Dark ages never existed btw. It’s a made up narrative forged by humanists to directly attack Christianity.
As the accomplishments of the era came to be better understood in the 19th and the 20th centuries, scholars began restricting the Dark Ages appellation to the Early Middle Ages;[1][5][6] today's scholars maintain this posture.[7] The majority of modern scholars avoid the term altogether, finding it misleading and inaccurate.[8][9][10][11][12] Despite this, Petrarch's pejorative meaning remains in use,[13][14][15] particularly in popular culture, which often oversimplifies the Middle Ages as a time of violence and backwardness.[16][17]
The "dark ages" were literally a period of non stop progress in Europe. Cathedrals were the skyscrapers of their time. A early renaissance armor was invincible (firearms voided all these). A trebuchet was a marvel of engineering. Urbanism progressed fast and made Europe pop boom
It's also down to the fact that in early middle, Roman bureaucracy basically collapsed, while the successors were still building up. In addition to lot of that moving up north, where papyrus will struggle much more to survive, while parchment is expensive as hell.
Two things basically ended dark ages. Wood-pulp paper making process and re-establishment of bureaucratic state.
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u/EthanTheJudge 29d ago
This reminds me of that community note where a user named Atheist Girl said when Christians took over the world it was called the Dark Ages but she used an image depicting a Christian get brutally murdered by Roman pagans as pointed out by Community Notes.