How 'Dark' were the Dark Ages? Documentary
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Date: 2022-07-19
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Scorpion
I wonder how they will describe XXI century. The dumb ages. Why dumb?
In XXI century they had all technology and knowledge - yet they they didn't want to unite, racism and nationalism were at their highest. You had people that believed earth is flat, most of the globe was affected due to pandemic yet no one wanted to have vaccine as people didn't believe it was truth. They were literally left to themselves as their rulers choose economy over peoples life's. Our planet was really beautiful and
there was a global warming that caused the weather we have today but people choose bad rulers that were not interested in fixing it and they started third world war.
People were fighting over LGBT rights or women rights or men rights. Instead of creating one law that is for everyone.
I'm telling you kids - dumb ages
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I wonder how they will describe XXI century. The dumb ages. Why dumb?
In XXI century they had all technology and knowledge - yet they they didn't want to unite, racism and nationalism were at their highest. You had people that believed earth is flat, most of the globe was affected due to pandemic yet no one wanted to have vaccine as people didn't believe it was truth. They were literally left to themselves as their rulers choose economy over peoples life's. Our planet was really beautiful and
there was a global warming that caused the weather we have today but people choose bad rulers that were not interested in fixing it and they started third world war.
People were fighting over LGBT rights or women rights or men rights. Instead of creating one law that is for everyone.
I'm telling you kids - dumb ages
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Losttoanyreason
Sadly we actually know very little about the past. What we do know that is actually factual are treasures. Most however aren't so factual many times. Whole theories/doctorates have been espoused as facts over the scant information left us. Anthropologist and historians making total asses out of themselves coming up with their off the wall notions. I would kill for the lost libraries both public and private of all of recorded history but sadly they would tell us very little about actual life in the past. I love history but it is like looking through a window that is dirty on both the inside with our preconceptions and the outside that failed in 99% of the time to record anything because it was so mundane that it wouldn't occur to someone to write it down.
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Sadly we actually know very little about the past. What we do know that is actually factual are treasures. Most however aren't so factual many times. Whole theories/doctorates have been espoused as facts over the scant information left us. Anthropologist and historians making total asses out of themselves coming up with their off the wall notions. I would kill for the lost libraries both public and private of all of recorded history but sadly they would tell us very little about actual life in the past. I love history but it is like looking through a window that is dirty on both the inside with our preconceptions and the outside that failed in 99% of the time to record anything because it was so mundane that it wouldn't occur to someone to write it down.
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captainmanacles
I have no idea why there are so many videos like this the dark ages was mostly a myth, sure literacy and education disappeared and many intellectual works were lost entirely and people fled the cities to a near stone age life in subsistence agriculture and there were rampant famines because the basic building blocks of civilization had failed, but other than that things were fine
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I have no idea why there are so many videos like this the dark ages was mostly a myth, sure literacy and education disappeared and many intellectual works were lost entirely and people fled the cities to a near stone age life in subsistence agriculture and there were rampant famines because the basic building blocks of civilization had failed, but other than that things were fine
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Nicholas
I'd say the early Middle Ages were fairly dark. I'd suggest reading Bryan Ward-Perkin's concise book on the subject, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization.
Ward-Perkins goes into great detail on the apparent collapse of the economy, as evidenced by things like the sudden and drastic reduction in pottery. He also goes into detail about the oppressive nature of Gothic rule.
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I'd say the early Middle Ages were fairly dark. I'd suggest reading Bryan Ward-Perkin's concise book on the subject, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization.
Ward-Perkins goes into great detail on the apparent collapse of the economy, as evidenced by things like the sudden and drastic reduction in pottery. He also goes into detail about the oppressive nature of Gothic rule.
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TnT
There is no mention of the real dark stuff here, I am kind of disappointed with this one as a person who enjoys most of your content. How people were murdered being accused of witchcraft and heresy etc. or how clueless was the public about the black death and other calamities or whereas the east was doing a lot better with physicians, philosophers, mathematicians and such.
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There is no mention of the real dark stuff here, I am kind of disappointed with this one as a person who enjoys most of your content. How people were murdered being accused of witchcraft and heresy etc. or how clueless was the public about the black death and other calamities or whereas the east was doing a lot better with physicians, philosophers, mathematicians and such.
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Eamonn
The speaker of the US House likes to use The Dark Ages as a pejorative against her political opponents.
Yet seems unaware of the once great but now emptied cities of Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland, St Louis, Pittsburgh, etc. etc. ruled by her ilk.
I think I read the Dark Ages was a made up term during the Enlightenment as a means of self congratulation.
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The speaker of the US House likes to use The Dark Ages as a pejorative against her political opponents.
Yet seems unaware of the once great but now emptied cities of Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland, St Louis, Pittsburgh, etc. etc. ruled by her ilk.
I think I read the Dark Ages was a made up term during the Enlightenment as a means of self congratulation.
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buff
I have to disagree pretty strongly with you on this one. It is fashionable in academia to have revisionist views about the Dark Ages but the fall of the Western Roman Empire was a huge disaster that should not be downplayed. Even just what you said in this video about the population of Rome is a very strong piece of evidence against your own argument.
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I have to disagree pretty strongly with you on this one. It is fashionable in academia to have revisionist views about the Dark Ages but the fall of the Western Roman Empire was a huge disaster that should not be downplayed. Even just what you said in this video about the population of Rome is a very strong piece of evidence against your own argument.
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EebstertheGreat
But weren't the Dark Ages so-called because of the lack of surviving documents from the period? Like the Greek Dark Ages? The original Latin term was _saeculum obscurum, _ which literally means dark age but also shares the English metaphorical meaning of age of obscurity. We could think of it like age that we don't know much about.
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But weren't the Dark Ages so-called because of the lack of surviving documents from the period? Like the Greek Dark Ages? The original Latin term was _saeculum obscurum, _ which literally means dark age but also shares the English metaphorical meaning of age of obscurity. We could think of it like age that we don't know much about.
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Paul
Friendly reminder that the Renaissance almost destroyed the scientific method which had been persevered by the Christian monks. Why? Because the Renaissance intellectuals (like many of a certain type today) were obsessed with feelings as truth, rather than hard data.
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Friendly reminder that the Renaissance almost destroyed the scientific method which had been persevered by the Christian monks. Why? Because the Renaissance intellectuals (like many of a certain type today) were obsessed with feelings as truth, rather than hard data.
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LarsDragerl
I always thought the dark ages were given that name, because there are realatively little (written) source materials, in western europe. They were the transition period between Roman scripture and middle age certificates/charters (don't know my english here.
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I always thought the dark ages were given that name, because there are realatively little (written) source materials, in western europe. They were the transition period between Roman scripture and middle age certificates/charters (don't know my english here.
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Mihai
In addition, the Roman Empire in the East also had sway over the lands north of the Danube and in Pannonia. We have countless examples of local rulers being buried with Roman issued marks of power and full of goods traded from the southern Roman world.
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In addition, the Roman Empire in the East also had sway over the lands north of the Danube and in Pannonia. We have countless examples of local rulers being buried with Roman issued marks of power and full of goods traded from the southern Roman world.
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saberpat7
I think it was John Green who pointed out that when the larger system broke down in western Europe and was replaced by armed strongman it was called the feudal system
While everywhere else the strong men are called for what they are
Warlords
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I think it was John Green who pointed out that when the larger system broke down in western Europe and was replaced by armed strongman it was called the feudal system
While everywhere else the strong men are called for what they are
Warlords
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AdamESD
It may also have literally been darker. At least some of that early period included a mini ice age, resulting in cold wet weather in Europe. Anyone whos experienced wet winters in Europe would call it pretty dark and gloomy weather.
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It may also have literally been darker. At least some of that early period included a mini ice age, resulting in cold wet weather in Europe. Anyone whos experienced wet winters in Europe would call it pretty dark and gloomy weather.
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Daxter250
i thought the dark ages got its name due to the lack of information we have over that period of time. most of the barbarians werent capable of writing and thus recordings of what happened back then were rare.
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i thought the dark ages got its name due to the lack of information we have over that period of time. most of the barbarians werent capable of writing and thus recordings of what happened back then were rare.
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Sleepy
Woah it's been 2 yrs already dam, I look at Ur patron list and was wondering why this one was so short. Looked at the date and was confused as I thought I only just watched it recently when it first came out
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Woah it's been 2 yrs already dam, I look at Ur patron list and was wondering why this one was so short. Looked at the date and was confused as I thought I only just watched it recently when it first came out
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Alexios
for me, the dark ages started right after the battle of Frigidus river, the battle is the symbol of the declining of the west, the real political, economic power transferred to Constantinople
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for me, the dark ages started right after the battle of Frigidus river, the battle is the symbol of the declining of the west, the real political, economic power transferred to Constantinople
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LeoMagnvs452
The massive depopulation is part of the darkness. Also you stopped the clock in Italy just before the Lombards took over and ushered in a reign of barbarism
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The massive depopulation is part of the darkness. Also you stopped the clock in Italy just before the Lombards took over and ushered in a reign of barbarism
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Donny
00: 35 Interesting how so many people in the comments only heard the in a word and not the in a sentence and left thinking the Dark Ages were great everywhere
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00: 35 Interesting how so many people in the comments only heard the in a word and not the in a sentence and left thinking the Dark Ages were great everywhere
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LiezAllLiez
The dark ages were so dark, that people could barely see the tip of their noses. Fighting in pitch black wasnt easy. Neither was maintaining hygiene.
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The dark ages were so dark, that people could barely see the tip of their noses. Fighting in pitch black wasnt easy. Neither was maintaining hygiene.
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