>>18363415
Yeah the enlightenment just made stuff up.

The Middle Ages is generally more like the 11th to 14th centuries with the Dark Ages being the 6th to 10th centuries.

>>18363552
dark ages was akin to greek dark ages
middle ages (955-1453) more like archaic greece
early modern period (1453-1789) more like classical
late modern period (1789-1945) more like hellenistic

>>18363725
>greek dark ages
literally never happened
they just made it up, there is no archaeological evidence

they inserted several centuries of literally nothing into the chronology because Egyptian king lists are used to synchronize different historical narratives and they needed to make them fit into a timeline
they did all this dumb shit in the 19th century and most people never critically examined it

sure the bronze age collapse happened, but people didn't forget how to read and it didn't take 300 years to recover
there are no bones; show me the bones

>>18363931
Does anyone else hold to this theory?

>>18364011
No, he's another 4chan schizo with a big mouth. Autism makes you a chronic contrarian.
Greek dark ages are very real because there is a marked time period (1200-1100 BCE) where writing suddenly stops, the building of palaces suddenly stops, any trace of culture suddenly becomes much more difficult.
This coincides with the overall bronze age collapse, which coincides with a very large volcano eruption which led to massive famine and migration.
The cultures that emerge after 1100 BCE are very different from those that were before it, they lay the foundations for the coming city-states

>>18364031
>volanco
What one was this? I thought it was the seachads

The problem with the "middle ages" is that we make a hard line between Rome and the middle ages (beause it's more comfortable to read history that way), when in reality the transition was gradual.
Decentralization and deurbanization already occured during the Roman period.
It no longer became relevant to be educated or politically involved.
The romans solved their economic and politic crisis with reforms that taxes could be paid with goods such as grain and livestock instead of money.
This weakened the Roman centralized state because it was logistically and administratively demanding.
It made social mobility more difficult, people became locked into their professions, and people were seeking agricultural productivity instead of work in the cities. The Roman state encouraged this because they were desperate for revenue.
Even so, people couldnt pay their taxes.
Farmers were increasinly killed by roaming bandits or invaders, Landlords began claiming empty land and farmers found more protection from then than the Roman state and the Roman landlords gave the people farmland and protection in exchange for farming this land and revenue in goods. Basically, the foundations for serfs were being made during the Roman period.
In fact, one could translate the early middle-ages as an improvement from the Roman times because the Frankish kingdoms created a more effective system of these chaotic fiefdoms through feudalism, a system was created, trade routes could re-open, urbanization could recover.
The dark ages was created because of Rome, not because of the 'lack of Rome'. The empire had created a system it wasnt sophisticated enough to maintain, but the emerging European states managed to harness it.

>>18363931
>Bomes in 2026

>>18364064
>as an improvement from the Roman times because the Frankish kingdoms created a more effective system of these chaotic fiefdoms through feudalism
Feudalism was a completely unintentional system which came out of the collapse of the Carolingian Empire in the 9th century. Merovingian kings weren't dealing with wayward warlord counts, they appointed them, and five years later they were back begging in court for a new position. Independent figures like the dukes of Aquitaine were hardly tolerated, and they were destroyed and dismantled when central power could do so. Even in the late 9th century with the sons of Charles the Bald and Louis the German, they tried as much as they could to crush any potential threat and feudal lords that could challenge their rule.