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4.3: A Dark Age?

READ: The “Dark Ages” Debate

Images in popular culture often refer to Europe during the Middle Ages as a “dark” time period. Many scholars from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries would have agreed. But is the term “Dark Ages” one that most historians today would reject? Created by World History Project.
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