What do they mean by the midevil times and the dark ages?

Question

Always wondered

Answer 1

Medieval Times refers to the time from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th Century to The Reinassance of the 15th Century.
The Dark Ages is an era within that time frame named for all the sorrow,torture,grief, invasions and plague.

Answer 2

The dark ages refers to to a time in Western Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire when people were completely without education, writing, and were not striving to advance civilization. The people of the dark ages were more concerned with surviving than expanding their culture.

The term midievil is often associated with the dark ages but is not necessarily the same era, the times overlap each other, but the midievil years experienced changes and slow advancements in European society.

Answer 3

hmm, that's a good question. I know a lot of older people jokingly say that they were young back in the dark ages. I guess it literally means the midevil times. Like the 13-1500's? Something like that. I guess those were the dark ages. Although, I don't know what was so dark about them.

Answer 4

The dark ages is from the fall of the Roman empire to the early medieval ages (start of the feudalism & the rise of the church). Medieval times ends at the time of the Renissance.

*During the dark ages, Europeans were crude, uneducated barbarians. The Islamic empire transferred many technologies from China to Europe, and helped lift Europe out of the Dark Ages. (ie printing, moveable type, stirup, paper, gunpowder, etc)

Answer 5

That period from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance.