We are here into the hideously misnamed “Dark Ages.”
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My understanding was this was when the RCC took over total religious control of the known world....at least until the protesting ones..aka Protestants stood up and wanted their freedom from religious oppression. The religious system of that time took the light of the world and translated it in to Latin, which your common uneducated pheasant (middle-class and poor) could not understand.
Don't tell me your statement of hideously misnamed Dark Ages will be twisted like the ...there was no Holocaust...just something made up by the Jews. Why do I feel I won't be surprised. :)
The "Dark Ages" only covered the Western part of Europe and the Western Mediterranean. Germany, Poland and other territories in the north and East of the old Roman borders had never known civilization. In the East, where the Roman Empire stood strong, civilized life continued on as normal.
Indeed Constantinople was probably the richest city in the world for several centuries. Also, The Roman Catholic Church never had "total religious control of the known world" The Eastern Church in was as powerful as the Western Church until the wars with the Ottoman Turks depleted the Eastern Empire.