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Will there be another dark age?
No. The dark ages are only a relatively short period of the medieval era, didn’t collapse the entirety of Europe, and are falsely mixed with the worst version of the other worst periods of the medieval era. The Dark Ages is the term given to the period from 476 to 1492 in western Europe.
What triggers a dark age?
The cause of the Dark Ages is associated with a series of events related to the downfall of the Roman Empire. In 395 CE after the death of Emperor Theodosius, the Roman Empire was divided in half. In 410 CE, the Visigoths entered Rome and destroyed much of the city, to the extent that it was never the same.
What does living in the dark ages mean?
1 : a time during which a civilization undergoes a decline: such as. a Dark Ages plural : the European historical period from about a.d. 476 to about 1000 broadly : middle ages. b or Dark Age : the Greek historical period of three to four centuries from about 1100 b.c. —often plural. 2 or Dark Age.
Were the Dark Ages dark?
Before we start we have to clear something up: the Dark Ages were not dark; in fact, most of the reasons people think the early Middle Ages were dark are nothing but common misconceptions about the era.
Are we headed for another ice age?
” We should be heading into another ice age right now ,” Columbia University paleoclimate doctoral student Michael Sandstrom told Live Science. The big ice ages account for roughly 25 percent of the past billions of years on Earth, says Sandstrom.
Is our current Dark Age predicated on fear?
Our current dark age, like any dark age, is predicated on fear. The current fear that inhabits our world is that some people will be worthless, while others accumulate wealth and “take over” everything. This is a silly fear. The many have always been and always will be vastly more powerful than the few. It is a question of politics.
Are We in the Dark Age of Technology?
Yes, we are in it. This dark age has come because we are at the end of a range of technologies, and we are unwilling to do the social and political things to get out of those ruts. The prior dark age was largely about the sharing of information. We do not have that problem.