Question

Total Marks: 10
Q1. What was the duration of Dark Age? What were the reasons of Dark
Age? (2)​

Answer 1

The idea of the “Dark Ages” came from later scholars who were heavily biased toward ancient Rome. In the years following 476 A.D., various Germanic peoples conquered the former Roman Empire in the West (including Europe and North Africa), shoving aside ancient Roman traditions in favor of their own.

The cause of the dark ages was the rejection of reason - barbarians destroying stored knowledge and the church outlawing reason as the means to knowledge, to be replaced by revelation, which they have the monopoly on.