The Dark Ages was a period of religious struggle. The Middle Ages is loosely considered to extend from 400 to 1000 AD. While the term dark ages is no longer widely used, it may best be described as Early Middle Ages - the period following the decline of Rome in the Western World. He used it to denounce Latin literature of that time others expanded on this idea to express frustration with the lack of Latin literature during this time or other cultural achievements. The Italian Scholar, Francesco Petrarca called Petrarch, was the first to coin the phrase. Recent discoveries have apparently altered this perception as many new facts about this time have been uncovered.
Future historians used the term “dark” simply to denote the fact that little was known about this period there was a paucity of written history. Initially, this era took on the term “dark” by later onlookers this was due to the backward ways and practices that seemed to prevail during this time. This took place when the last Western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed by Odoacer, a barbarian. Generally, the Dark Ages referred to the period of time ushered in by the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Indeed, modern historians no longer use the term because of its negative connotation.
It focuses on the conquests of Clovis to form the Franks and modern France the rise of Christianity in Europe the advent of the first bubonic Plague in 542 AD, killing up to 50% of the populations in urban areas of Europe the invasion of Europe by Muslims in 732 which was rebuffed by Charles Martell in France at the Battle of Tours, saving Europe from becoming Islamic (and his grandson Charlemagne eventually becoming the Emperor of Rome) Charlemagne becoming the first Roman Emperor in 300 years at around the year 800, where he restored much of Europe to Roman control and brought health to the continent such as by instigating the education of the populace the devastating Viking attacks in Europe between 793 and 950 King Alfred rebuffing the Vikings in southern England in the late 800’s medieval knights starting to subjugate the populations of Europe starting in the 900’s and the Crusades being undertaken in 1095.The Dark Ages as a term has undergone many evolutions its definition depends on who is defining it. This 2007 History Channel documentary talks about what happened between the fall of Rome in 410 AD and the Crusades starting in the 1000’s AD.
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