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> Dark age was dark. Human rights, female! rights, hunger, thirst, no progress at all, hard lifes. There was progress in the Middle Ages, hence the difference between the early and late Middle Ages. Most information was mouth to mouth instead of written down. "The term employs traditional light-versus-darkness imagery to contrast the era's supposed darkness (ignorance and error) with earlier and later periods of light (knowledge and understanding)." "Others, however, have used the term to denote the relative scarcity of written records regarding at least the early part of the Middle Ages" | ||