• Sergio@slrpnk.net
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    18 hours ago

    Plot twist: the man is a time-traveller, and to him the medieval era lasts from the 5th century to the 34th century.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    Explanation: The ‘Dark Ages’, the first ~500 years of the Medieval period, are sometimes called such either because of the relative paucity of sources (modern) or because of the perceived ignorance of the period (somewhat outdated). The term itself is somewhat controversial in academia anymore - but don’t ever tell a historian that it was called the Dark Ages because ‘electricity was not yet invented’. You’ll deserve whatever you get!

  • dumbass@leminal.space
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    Obviously it was called the dark ages because that’s when the sun took a few years off to go on holiday.