Definitions for dark ages
dark ages

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Middle Ages, Dark Agesnoun

   the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance

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1. Dark Agesnoun

   The period of European history encompassing (roughly) 476–1000 .

2. Dark Agesnoun

   The time before the Internet was popular.

3. Dark Agesnoun

   Any relatively primitive period of time.

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1. dark ages

   The Dark Ages, also known as the Early Middle Ages, is a historical period in Europe that started with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD and lasted until the beginning of the High Middle Ages around 1000 AD. The term "Dark Ages" refers to the lack of recorded history and cultural and economic regression during this time, marked by the decline of the Roman civilization, depopulation, collapse of learning, and societal chaos. However, the term is considered pejorative by many historians, who prefer the term "Early Middle Ages". The "Dark Ages" can also refer to any period of time where a civilization experienced a severe downturn or decline.

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1. Dark Ages

   The Dark Ages is a historical periodization used for the Middle Ages, which emphasizes the cultural and economic deterioration that supposedly occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire. The label employs traditional light-versus-darkness imagery to contrast the "darkness" of the period with earlier and later periods of "light". The period is characterized by a relative scarcity of historical and other written records at least for some areas of Europe, rendering it obscure to historians. The term "Dark Age" itself derives from the Latin saeculum obscurum, originally applied by Caesar Baronius in 1602 to a tumultuous period in the 10th and 11th centuries. Originally the term characterized the bulk of the Middle Ages, or roughly the 6th to 13th centuries, as a period of intellectual darkness between extinguishing the "light of Rome" after the end of Late Antiquity, and the rise of the Italian Renaissance in the 14th century. This definition is still found in popular usage, but increased recognition of the accomplishments of the Middle Ages has led to the label being restricted in application. Since the 20th century, it is frequently applied to the earlier part of the era, the Early Middle Ages. However, many modern scholars who study the era tend to avoid the term altogether for its negative connotations, finding it misleading and inaccurate for any part of the Middle Ages.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dark ages in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dark ages in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of dark ages in a Sentence

1. Laura Howarth:

   It kind of revolutionized our understanding of who the Anglo-Saxons were. This discovery illuminated the so-called Dark Ages and showed that these people were culturally sophisticated with amazing levels of craftsmanship and far-reaching trading connections.

2. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop:

   This is a brutal organization dedicated to creating misery and hardship, its activities of beheadings and executions and crucifixions all take us back to the dark ages.

3. Francis M. Faber Jr.:

   Mankind is soon out of the 'DARK AGES'.

4. Steve Jobs:

   The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

5. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

   Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dark ages
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dark_Ages
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=dark ages