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Dark Ages vs. Middle Ages
noun
- the period in European history from about a.d. 476 to about 1000.
- the whole of the Middle Ages, from about a.d. 476 to the Renaissance.
- a period or stage marked by repressiveness, a lack of enlightenment or advanced knowledge, etc.
plural noun
- the time in European history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance (from about 500 a.d. to about 1350): sometimes restricted to the later part of this period (after 1100) and sometimes extended to 1450 or 1500.