Grab your pitchforks and torches. We are headed to the dark ages

the period between the fall of Rome and the fifth century and the beginning of the modern age that began sometime in the

14th century is also often called the Middle Ages and the Medieval period and if you were the average European peasant things were in fact pretty dark

Some history sticklers consider just the first half of the Middle Ages to be the dark ages

But we're gonna march through an entire millennium today better to cover a bit too much than not enough

I hope also the true dark ages only concerns Europe

But while we'll be mainly primarily focused on Europe during this period and actually mostly Western Europe the true home of the dark ages

Also take a few peaks at the rest of the world what the hell was going on outside of Europe while European peasants were living mostly

Absolutely terrible lives at least terrible compared to today

During the dark ages you were bound to spend almost your entire life

Toilene over some small plot of land before you died around the age of 30 if you were really lucky

If you tried to upend the social order at all if you tried to not pay the insane taxes that your church or Lord

Levy to pawn you you would very quickly find yourself at the business end of a breastripper or some other horrific medieval torture contraption

Life for many for sure took a step back during the dark ages and the Roman Empire various common folk were inventing and improving and using

Aqueducts and indoor plumbing few centuries later their descendants were farming their own shit and accusing each other of witchcraft

But is that all there is to this story was ancient Rome consistently great in a vault for everyone

Where the dark ages defined by nothing but backwards and brutal lives?

Of course not as is so often the case with historical topics and with most things in life

It was all a bit more complicated than that European life thousand years ago was more complicated than a simple moniker like the dark ages

Concapture while Islamic and Christian armies ward with each other over the Holy Land and popes and kings seem to compete to see who could exploit the common man the most

The dark ages were also a time where serious progress was made and by some in astronomy medicine politics literature and more in the Arab world

Scholars wrote texts about medicine and science and translated the Greek and Latin classics and even in Europe

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