this is to do with archaelogical understanding of historical development of the thought about the path to modern humanity.
2006-06-20 22:28:30 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
As far as I know it is not the whole of the medieval period that is called "The Dark Ages". I don't think e.g. the Renaissance (sorry if the spelling is bad) can be involved in it. It is mainly the periods when the Catholic Church was too powerful and didn't let science or arts develop.
2006-06-24 01:16:47 · answer #1 · answered by Mirabo 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Archaeological understanding? Buildings stand up, buildings fall down. What has this to do with the path to modern humanity? Techniques have improved, but we still use Roman materials, (see CONCRETE and GLASS), society has, "improved", but we still kill each other. So what exactly is this "modern humanity"? We are a primitive society at best, not far from the creatures that came down from the trees. Until the so called Renaissance we thought in very primitive ways, hence the DARK AGES, but that was only in Western Europe, the rest of the world was getting on with it. Dark Ages is a term to use looking at the world from a Eurocentric point of view only.
2006-06-20 22:42:58 · answer #2 · answered by djoldgeezer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A number of factors entered in to make that period both figuratively and literally dark. The Roman empire had fallen, and Byzantium was too far away to effectively keep Europe from sliding into feudal barbarism. Then to make everything even worse, there was a "mini ice age" around 536 AD, probably caused by a massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia, that caused two "years without summer" -- crop failures, yellow sulfur dust falling from the air to poison the land across half the world, and general dishevelment caused by the resulting starvation and plagues. To anyone living in those times, it must have seemed dark indeed. I sure as hell wouldn't want to visit the period!
2006-06-21 07:30:15 · answer #3 · answered by Steve H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The amount of wars stopped or slowed down the cultural and science development. Also there where many pleagues that killed a large number of people freezing development for a large period.
2006-06-21 01:24:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the first answer here.
Right now I'm not in the mood of elaborating more on this...
2006-06-21 09:21:12 · answer #5 · answered by todaywiserthanyesterday 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋