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plus, the people who parrot this bullshit are always unaware that the Byzantine empire existed during the same time period, was very much Christian (Eastern Orthodox rather than Catholic), and was one of the most advanced civilisations in the worldI hate this meme. I hate hate hate it.
Every historian hates it.
THE DARK AGES ARE NOT THE MIDDLE AGES/MEDIEVAL PERIOD
It was the period after the fall of the Western Roman Empire through Germanic tribes. It lasted a few hundred years until those tribes consolidated themselves into stable kingdoms and dukedoms that started regular bookkeeping and archiving of correspondence again.
It is is also not called the dark age because it was so evil and scary, it was because there is little writing and other sources, meaning historians don't know a lot about it.
If anything, christian monastery culture helped a lot in making the new nobility literate, to duplicate the classics and spread them over the continent, establish some sort of common ground between the tribes, etc. In fact, we only have the classic writings because medieval monks duplicated the hell out of them, and on paper, not on papyrus.
Papyrus is not as durable, and only a few works were copied on pergament, which was very expensive.
Fucking moronic "Enlightenment" myths. Fuck.
Give me my tophats.
one of their more notorious inventions was Greek fire, a liquid used in warfare that spontaneously caught fire on contact with air or water - the recipe for it was such a closely guarded secret that it was never written down, so it's now lost to time, and it took nearly 1,000 years for any more chemicals with similar effects to be discovered