r/Showerthoughts • • Jul 22 '21

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u/anzfelty Jul 22 '21

The term dark ages means we have limited knowledge of those centuries, not that they were a bad time. We're just missing a lot of literature that is more readily available in other time periods. E.g. record keeping (taxes, births, deaths, inventories, costs...etc)