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  2. Dark Ages (historiography) - Wikipedia

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    The OED in 1894 defined an uncapitalised "dark ages" as "a term sometimes applied to the period of the Middle Ages to mark the intellectual darkness characteristic of the time". [37] Since the Late Middle Ages significantly overlap with the Renaissance, the term 'Dark Ages' became restricted to distinct times and places in medieval Europe.

  3. Dark Ages - Wikipedia

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    Dark Ages (historiography), the use of the term Dark Ages by historians and lay people Early Middle Ages (5th–10th centuries), the centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire Saeculum obscurum ("dark age/century"), a period in the history of the papacy during the first two-thirds of the 10th century

  4. Early Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th to the 10th century. [ note 1 ] They marked the start of the Middle Ages of European history , following the decline of the Western Roman Empire , and preceding the High ...

  5. Greek Dark Ages - Wikipedia

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    The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1200–800 BC) were earlier regarded as two continuous periods of Greek history: the Postpalatial Bronze Age (c. 1200–1050 BC) [1] and the Prehistoric Iron Age or Early Iron Age (c. 1050–800 BC), the last included all the ceramic phases from the Protogeometric to the Middle Geometric [1] and lasted until the beginning of the Protohistoric Iron Age around 800 BC.

  6. Category:Dark ages - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Dark ages" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  7. Byzantine Dark Ages - Wikipedia

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    Byzantine Dark Ages is a historiographical term for the period in the history of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, during the 7th and 8th centuries, which marks the transition between the late antique early Byzantine period and the "medieval" middle Byzantine era. The "Dark Ages" are characterized by widespread upheavals and transformation ...

  8. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Early Iron Age (c. 1050 BC – 776 BC) – part of the Greek Dark Ages; Classical antiquity (776 BC – 476 AD) Archaic Greece (776 BC – 480 BC) – begins with the First Olympiad, traditionally dated 776 BC; Classical Greece (480 BC – 338 BC) Macedonian era (338 BC – 323 BC) Hellenistic Greece (323 BC – 146 BC) Late Roman Republic (147 ...

  9. In Search of the Dark Ages - Wikipedia

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    In Search of the Dark Ages is a BBC television documentary series, written and presented by historian Michael Wood, first shown between 1979 and 1981.It comprises eight short films across two series, each focusing on a particular character from the history of England prior to the Norman Conquest, a period popularly known as the Dark Ages.