Bible Question: What is the Dark Ages |
Bible Answer: The Dark Agews usually refers to the peiod from roughly 400 A.D. to 1000 A.D., the 5th to the 10th century. That was the time of the Barbarian invasions of the old Roman Empire, followe by the period of the Norsemen or Vikings. During that time the light of early Christian expansion and Classical Greek and Roman civilization was nearly wiped out from large portions of Europe and only gradually restored during the later Middles Ages from the 11th through the 15th century. Things actually started to improve during the 8th century reign of Charlemagne, but only when the Vikings we converted to Christianity in the 9th and 10th centuries did things start to improve dramatically to the point where Europe was referred to as Christendom. Emmaus |