Dark Ages
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Dark Ages
▶plural noun
- 1 the period in Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, c.500–1100 ad, judged to have been a time of relative unenlightenment.
- 2 Archaeology a period in ancient Greece from the end of the Bronze Age until the historical period, in which there was no building and the art of writing was apparently lost.
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