A New Dark Age?

A New Dark Age?

In greatly simplified terms, the Dark Ages were the centuries following the fall of Rome circa 500 AD, during which the accumulated Greek and Roman learning of the previous millennium was lost to all but a few monks and scholars. The breakdown of continental stability maintained from the imperial capital left a patchwork of feudal kingdoms from the North Atlantic across the European plain, sporadically warring with each other and invaders from t…