What historical date do the Dark Ages refer to?

Answer 1

The actual date vary somewhat. In general, you can think of it as the time between the fall of the Roman Empire to the start of the Renaissance.

Answer 2

The dates are generally vague but around the 400's to around the 1000 which turned over to Medieval. Then came the Renaissance which was the age of enlightenment. Started aroud the 13 or 1400's I think. Been a while since I took World History

Answer 3

AD c. 470 to 1000

There were the Carolingian Renaissance around 800 and the Irish "Age of Saints and Scholars" before that but "Barbarian raids" led to their eclipsing.

The Dark Ages in the West were darker or lighter depending on the location and time and what groups were raiding or settling(like Arabs ,Magyars,Pechenegs,Avars or Vikings,etc) where and when.

The Western Dark Ages were not so in all the places of the world. The Byzantine World and Muslim World had brilliant periods of scholarship and art.

Answer 4

The term Dark Ages or Dark Age refers to the Early Middle Ages, the period encompassing (roughly) 476 AD to 1000 AD.

Answer 5

America...2007

Answer 6

476AD to 1000AD.

And here's the Wikipedia entry to prove it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages

An exert:

"This concept of a dark age was created by the Italian scholar Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) in the 1330s, and was originally intended as a sweeping criticism of the character of Late Latin literature. Later historians expanded the term to refer to the transitional period between Classical Roman Antiquity and the High Middle Ages, including not only the lack of Latin literature, but also a lack of contemporary written history, general demographic decline, limited building activity and material cultural achievements in general (for example, as shown in the impoverishment of a number of technologies, e.g. in pottery)."

Answer 7

Roughyl 450 AD (fall of the Roman Empire) until about 1100 AD (after the Norman Conquest, and a flowering of medieval society develops)

These are not hard and fast dates, and will be different depending upon what historian you talk to

Answer 8

The Dark Ages were when the Catholic Church was in power and kept people from no only reading the bible in their own language but persecuted and murdered them for doing so.
By the way, the Catholic Church refers to this same period of time as the "Golden Age."

Answer 9

The time when the Christians were killing everybody, 476-1000 A.D. Of course there were many other killing sprees that came out of this time, though this is just the time looked back as the greatest peril caused from the church, hence 'Dark Ages'

Answer 10

After the Romans left in the 4th century until the Norman invasion in the 11th