The medieval Greeks would see ancient ruins built by their ancestors and call them “Egyptian castle” or “Hebrew castle” because they had forgotten their own history, but knew about the Egyptians and Hebrews from the Bible—these structures were very old so must have been built by Egyptians or Jews. And they weren’t even subjected to Common Core.
VDH point about the dark ages in Greece was that they coincided with the invasion of a new group of people who didn’t know how to build the monuments.
same as with california today.