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Is "the Dark Ages" an appropriate term to describe the Middle Ages? Why or why not?

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Yes

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The term dark ages referred to having limited information about this time period at the time. Historians gave it a bad name by saying people who were living in this time were living miserable without innovation even though that's not what the term really meant.

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yes

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because in the middle ages it was describes as the "dark ages" because of poverty and not enough food/ supplies

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