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arguing that the ‘Fall of Rome’ created a ‘Dark Ages’ which was bad and is a term that is pejorative from a place of total ignorance.

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[–] Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Can we get more historical knowledge distributed this way?

And applied directly to my face?

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

OK but I get to wear the booty shorts

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ignorant layperson here, less ignorant now. Thank you.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's been a long time since I've had so much fun learning so much about history. Gimme more. GIMME

[–] IntriguedIceberg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This was a great read! Had a lot of fun with it and got educated.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's dark age Europe, because of the chuch.

Aquinas apologetics in there too, yay.

Fortunately no one owns the period or phrase and we are free to call dark age Europe dark age Europe if we wish, and I couldn't give a fuck if someone with a sticker thinks otherwise.

Academia as everything else runs on trends, fashions and the needs of the masses, even those that don't go to masses anymore.

[–] azi@mander.xyz -1 points 2 weeks ago

no the term pretty universally refers to intellectual decline. that's why historians no longer use it