Plus it was a great time of discovery the far east asia was well. Many new inventions were discovered and knowledge expanded in China. Printing, gear machinery, gun-powder, pre-industrial process was developed around this time in China.

Yes and no. It was a time when there certainly was a retrenchment from the way of life and the learning of the classical eras dominated by Rome and Greece.

Much that was known was “lost” until rediscovered in the Renaissance.

On the other hand there is a continuity from ancient times into the middle ages, all knowledge was not lost as well.

I still like calling it the dark ages because man did sink to a lower standard of living/political/economic status at this time and it coincides with the rise of the Roman Catholic Church in the west which did inhibit much development in the arts and sciences and at the same time gave us much learning and art as well during the “dark ages.”

I suppose. I think the Dark ages were called that because of the lack of written history of that period. (well there wasn’t a ack of it as much as it wasn’t written in latin). It was written in arabic a because Europe was ruled by the moors during that period. I suppose white people would rather just skip over that oart of history.