2007-11-16 20:49:44 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
According to my kid, ready to get her Master's in American History and having studied all kinds of history to get where she is (she's a re-entry student, and has taken many classes in this field on her way to a fellowship for graduate studies, nearly complete)-- we're either very close to being in or are already slipping into the 'next' dark age.
She says those who feel an age of enlightenment is coming are wrong... it's the dark age for the time being... we go from one to another down through the ages with various brief breaks in between. I'm no historian, so I can't say, but I've seen her work and believe she can.
I think we'll get to know what a modern dark age is like, if we don't know already. I feel 'society' is pretty dark, don't you?
2007-11-16 21:05:43 · answer #1 · answered by LK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I recommend you read a book called, "A World Lit Only by Fire". It describes in layman terms what life was like during that period in Europe.
People lived under the same roof with their animals. The floor of these homes was a foot or more of animal and human waste, straw, and whatever else.
People consumed on average a gallon or so of Ale a day. Basically, the average peasant during the Middle Ages was always drunk.
People during the Middle Ages rarely if ever traveled outside of the village in which they were born.
They were almost always illiterate and highly superstitious. The average person during the Middle Ages definitely believed in the devil and demons and was constantly in fear of all things evil.
They were mostly naked and copulated frequently whenever the opportunity presented itself.
Am I painting the proper picture for you? Naked, scared, ignorant, drunk, filthy, lecherous, and adulterous.
2007-11-16 21:02:49 · answer #2 · answered by mikealao2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fine question to be discussed and analyzed.The practice of custom and traditions followed in the Dark ages is still in the human society in one way or other.Not so public and in common
Human society has been revolutionized to a great extent due to Technological,political and economic development.But the change of society in outlook,attitude ,custom,tradition and culture,the pace of change through the ages is not as required and as expected.
Far reaching changes are still to be attained to become the mark of modern civilized society of the modern ages.
2007-11-16 21:11:09 · answer #3 · answered by ahmed k 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
scociety?
you mean Scottish?
Oh yes! they're still in the darkness...
2007-11-16 20:53:23 · answer #4 · answered by emilia d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing new under the sun for man-man and women in love and want the best(health,wealth and happiness)and then why war -why bad weather-what with our country-what with politics-etc.Any way alot more earth based ,more green ,more inter dependence between man and animals .Small farms ruled the day.
2007-11-16 23:03:44 · answer #5 · answered by AD&D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dark
2007-11-16 20:52:29 · answer #6 · answered by ケチャッパー 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A shadow of its present self.
2007-11-16 22:55:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was not as "dark" as some historians would have you think.
2007-11-16 20:52:52 · answer #8 · answered by emiliosailez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very dark
2007-11-16 20:52:26 · answer #9 · answered by darcyaf1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty much like today in all honesty.
2007-11-16 20:51:52 · answer #10 · answered by Doodle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋