Essays on Dark Ages

Archaic Greece alludes to the period in Greek history between 800 BC and 480 BC, when Persia invaded Greece. (Raaflaub, 2013, p. 97). The so-called classical era replaced the period that came after the Greek Dark Ages. Compared to earlier times, there were many notable changes at this period that...

Francesco Petrarca, an Italian author and the father of Renaissance culture, coined the phrase "dark ages" to describe the Middle Ages. This spans the era of European history from the Renaissance to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire (476). The word is used to refer to the more condensed...

The dark ages is the name for the time period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Christianity in Western Europe. It’s a term that has been used for centuries to describe a time of slow progress and lack of advancement. The term was first coined by...