Why do they call the dark ages that?

Question

was it because the Light of the Lord wasn't shared ?
or because the light bulb wasn't invinted yet, and electricity wasn't discovered ?

Answer 1

Everybody had a good tan.

Answer 2

It was a law for everyone to wear sunglasses

The Dark Ages
Early scholars gave the name "Dark Ages" to the period in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, barbarian Goths, Vandals, and Huns swept down on Europe from the north and east. They destroyed many fine buildings and works of art that had existed during Roman times. During the Dark Ages, knowledge survived only in monasteries, and there were very few schools. Many of the old arts and crafts were lost. This is why the time was called the "Dark Ages."

The eastern Roman Empire was not conquered by the barbarians. There, the arts still flourished. People were still thinking and making fine works of art in other parts of the world. In China and India, great civilizations grew and spread. In the 1000s, Europe began to slowly recover from its artistic darkness. The lost knowledge of the ancient Greeks and Romans was found again. There was a new interest in learning, and the richer life of the Middle Ages began.
The Age of Feudalism
During the Dark Ages many changes took place.

Less writing, education, trade (called the Dark Ages)

Political fragmentation. There were many leaders. The kings had less power because countries were divided into areas controlled by feudal lords. There were many barbaric tribes.

German political traditions differed - People were loyal to a tribe, not to a country. German legal traditions differed - They had laws for individual tribes. German cultural traditions - They had no written literature, and runes were used for monuments.

The Church preserved ancient writings and Biblical writings. The Christian Church helped unify people of Europe because of its centralized authority and hierarchical nature. The Church unified the people because it was the only constant.
The Crusades
The Crusades were wars between Christians and Muslims, fought in Palestine. In 1071, Turkish Muslims captured Jerusalem. The Muslims stopped the Christians from visiting the holy places in Palestine. Naturally, Christian rulers in Europe were very angry about this.

The Byzantine emperor in Constantinople asked the Pope to help him drive the Turks from the Holy Land. Peter the Hermit and the Pope started the first Crusade. Cleverly, Pope Urban II said that he would forgive the sins of all people who went and fought in the Holy Land.

Answer 3

In historiography, the term Dark Ages or Dark Age most commonly refers to the European Early Middle Ages, the period encompassing (roughly) 476 to 1000.

This concept of a "Dark Age" was created by the Italian scholar Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) and was originally intended as a sweeping criticism of the character of Late Latin literature. Later historians expanded the term to include not only the lack of Latin literature, but a lack of contemporary written history and material cultural achievements in general. Popular culture has further expanded on the term as a vehicle to depict the Middle Ages as a time of backwardness, extending its pejorative use and expanding its scope. The rise of archaeology and other specialities in the 20th century has shed much light on the period and offered a more nuanced understanding of its positive developments.

Most modern historians dismiss the notion that the era was a "Dark Age" by pointing out that this idea was based on ignorance of the period combined with popular stereotypes: many previous authors would simply assume that the era was a dismal time of violence and stagnation and use this assumption to prove itself. The term is now widely considered to be pejorative.

Answer 4

It was a slur introduced during the so-called "Englightenment." Writers like Voltaire and Hume used it to distinguish their time period from the ages that had come before. If nothing else, it made them look better.

However, contrary to popular belief, the era after the end of Roman Hegemony (to call it the "Fall of Rome" also gives a distorted image) was not a period of technological or philosophical backwardness. Europe advanced by steady increment, developing waterwheels, better forges, stirrups for horses (which made a calvary truly viable - the Romans didn't have stirrups and could ride to a battle, but had to get off to fight), etc.

Also contrary to the lies that the likes of Hume and Gibbons would have had us believe, Greek learning did not "disappear" during this period. The Scholastics continued to study, debate, test, and improve on it.

The "Renaisance" was a fashion statement, little more.

Answer 5

The dark ages are called that because the concept of a "Dark Age" was created by the Italian scholar Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) and was originally intended as a sweeping criticism of the character of Late Latin literature. Later historians expanded the term to include not only the lack of Latin literature, but a lack of contemporary written history and material cultural achievements in general.
So they refer to it that way because not a lot of information came for that time. They are also called Middle Ages or the European Middle Ages.

Answer 6

They called it that because civilization slipped backwards instead of going forwards after the fall of the Roman Empire. In fact, "dark" ages is a term that people in the Renaissance used to describe the era between the fall of Rome and the beginning of the Renaissance because they believed that nothing major philosophically, literature wise, etc. had happened.
And yes, the light of the Lord wasn't shared very much at all then, unfortunately.

Answer 7

The dark ages we Christians speak of is satan's millennium because between around 500 to 1500 AD The catholic church had so many people killed & the light of the gospel was polluted so much that there was very little light of truth, Then comes Martin Luther to start the reformation, It is know in the religious term as not having much light of the Truth, & the reformation was to begin to bring back little at a time the true light of the Gospel.

Answer 8

Because there was a completly lack gain of knowledge at that time, since the collapse of the Roman empire, Europe descended into Feudalism and no new knowledge was acquired by humans, actually lost. Because everyone was Christian is was a period of ignorance therefore dark because of the lack of light, knowledge.

Answer 9

It was because extreme interpretations of the Bible
caused the Church to condemn everything of a
spiritual nature. And anything that went against thier
extreme interpretations was heresy and punishable
by death. So people were scared, and knowledge
went into the closet you might say!

Answer 10

they call the dark ages, dark ages b/c it was the time after the Roman Empire fell and the Catholic Church banned any type of "enlightened" thinking books, philosophies, medicines, ect.

Hence, the world went from and "enlightened" thinking period to a "dark" mindless (follow the leader) period where thinking obtusely from the general masses was looked down upon....that's why the Spanish Inquisition initially started. To run the Moores out of Spain (who were Arabs and believed in higher education as in sciences, mathematics, herbal medicines ect) and replace it with Christians (who believed in supernatural powers) The rest of Europe caught on to the "witch" burning theory really fast.

Answer 11

A few different reasons, science and technology, and even artistic development was pretty much at a stand still for hundreds of years, and in some cases, it actually de-evolved. Thank Gods for the Italian Renaissance!
During this time a lot of facts, and junk were thrown out because of religion. Sad, but it happened.