Examples of Dark Ages in the following topics:
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- The Greek Dark Ages were ushered in by a period of violence, and characterized by the disruption of Greek cultural progress.
- The Late Bronze Age collapse, or Age of Calamities, was a
transition in the Aegean Region, Eastern Mediterranean, and Southwestern Asia
that took place from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age.
- The palace
economy of the Aegean Region that had characterized the Late Bronze Age, was
replaced, after a hiatus, by the isolated village cultures of the Greek Dark
Ages—
a period that lasted for more than 400 years.
- Excavations of Dark Age
communities, such as Nichoria in the Peloponnese, have shown how a Bronze Age
town was abandoned in 1150 BCE, but then reemerged as a small village cluster
by 1075 BCE.
- High status
individuals did exist during the Dark Ages; however, their standards of living
were not significantly higher than others in their village.
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- Many
estimates place the events of Homer’s Trojan War as preceding the Greek Dark
Ages, of approximately 1250 to 750 BCE.
- The Iliad, however, has been placed
immediately following the Greek Dark Age period.
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- Disdaining what he believed to be the ignorance of the centuries preceding the era in which he lived, Petrarch is credited or charged with creating the concept of a historical "Dark Ages."
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- Charlemagne is considered to be the greatest ruler of the Carolingian Dynasty because of the achievements he made during what seemed like the very middle of the Dark Ages.
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- Some have a cultural usage (the Gilded Age), others refer to prominent historical events (the inter-war years: 1918–1939), yet others are defined by decimal numbering systems (the 1960s, the 17th century).
- The common general split between prehistory (before written history), ancient history, Middle Ages, modern history, and contemporary history (history within the living memory) is a Western division of the largest blocks of time agreed upon by Western historians and representing the Western point of view.
- However, even the split between pre-modern and modern eras is problematic because it is complicated by the question of how history educators, textbook authors, and publishers decide to categorize what is known as the early modern era, which is traditionally a period between Renaissance and the end of the Age of Enlightenment.
- Petrarch, Italian poet and thinker, conceived of the idea of a European "Dark Age," which later evolved into the tripartite periodization of Western history into Ancient, Middle Ages and Modern.
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- Age of the Caliphs: [dark purple] Expansion under the Prophet Mohammad, 622-632; [dark pink] Expansion during the Patriarchal Caliphate, 632-661; [dark orange] Expansion during the Umayyad Caliphate, 661-750.
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- This period became known as the Golden Age of India because it was marked by
extensive inventions and discoveries in science, technology, engineering, art,
dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy.
- Other scholars of the Golden Age helped create the first Indian
numeral systems with a base of ten.
- The cultural creativity of the Golden Age of India produced magnificent
architecture, including palaces and temples, as well as sculptures and paintings
of the highest quality.
- Some shrines were cut out of
the cliffs, and although dark, they were also decorated with sculptures and
paintings.
- The Golden Age of India
produced many temples, decorated with various sculptures and paintings, such as
the Dashavatara Temple, also known as the Vishnu Temple, in central India.
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- On the theoretical side of astronomy, the English natural philosopher John Michell first proposed the existence of dark stars in 1783.
- The Age of Enlightenment was also when the first scientific and literary journals were established.
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- In the late Middle Ages, the overwhelming majority of poetry was written in Latin, and therefore accessible only to affluent and educated audiences.
- He was the earliest person to write using the three-period view of history: Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Modern.
- The foundation of Bruni's conception can be found with Petrarch, who distinguished the classical period from later cultural decline, or tenebrae (literally "darkness").
- Dante Alighieri was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages who influenced and set the precedent for Renaissance literature.
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- In the Late Middle Ages (1340–1400) Europe experienced the most deadly disease outbreak in history when the Black Death, the infamous pandemic of bubonic plague, hit in 1347.
- The common mood was one of pessimism, and contemporary art turned dark with representations of death.
- Evaluate the impact of the Black Death on European society in the Middle Ages