dark ages in English

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1
the period in western Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the high Middle Ages, circa ad 500–1100, during which Germanic tribes swept through Europe and North Africa, often attacking and destroying towns and settlements.
2
a period in Greece and the Aegean from the end of the Bronze Age until the beginning of the archaic period. There was no building of palaces and fortresses, and the art of writing was apparently lost.
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1. What is this, the Dark Ages?

2. So, these are the Dark Ages.

3. You're living in the dark ages, Mum!

4. There's no Renaissance without the Dark Ages.

5. In the Dark Ages, Power was the Church.

6. It was the middle of the dark ages.

7. We still have one foot in the dark ages.

8. Why are the Middle Mges called the Dark Ages?

9. Wycliffe came from the obscurity of the Dark Ages.

10. Please, let's not go back to the Dark Ages.

11. We the dark ages as a time of brutality.

12. Ever since then, Congress has plunged into the Dark Ages.

13. You're a brigand, a throw-back to the Dark Ages.

14. They weren't big on happy endings in the Dark Ages.

15. Teacher: Why do we sometimes call the Ages the Dark Ages?

16. This repressive law takes gay rights back to the dark ages.

17. In Europe the Middle Ages were broadly synonymous with the Dark Ages.

18. The dark ages to come will endure not twelve, but thirty thousand years.

19. The truth is we're nearer the Dark Ages than we care to admit.

20. Ruiz - Geli is not interested in returning to the dark ages before Modernism.

21. In the dark ages people like Edward got crucified or burned as witches.

22. The dark ages, as she called them, have covered most of her royal life.

23. Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 19 they started a software company.

24. If the large living-dining area was post-Pompeii, the bathroom was late Dark Ages.

25. In history the Dark Ages are regarded as having begun somewhere about the tenth century.

26. Some education experts hail the change as a step forward from the ideological dark ages.

27. Richard is stuck in the Dark Ages when it comes to his attitudes towards women.

28. This was one more bit of debris from the capitalist system, from feudalism, from the Dark Ages.

29. The exhibition begins in the Dark Ages with early king-making ceremonies and symbols of sovereign power.

30. All rights reserved**Viking: The Berserkers - In Dark Ages Britain, a group of young Saxons are captured

31. Different to Lefortovo, back in the dark ages from the second floor of the hospital block at Vladimir.

32. Despite debunking many of the legends of the Dark Ages, she can't quite stop believing in them herself.

33. 24 This was one more bit of debris from the capitalist system, from feudalism, from the Dark Ages.

34. But they're not hip-hop messiahs come to lead a supposedly stagnating genre out of the dark ages.

35. The medieval, Renaissance and modern collections cover more than a millennium, from the Dark Ages to the interwar period.

36. Perhaps we are emerging from the Dark Ages of Community Care and we are moving into a new age of enlightenment.

37. It was exactly as I had always imagined the Dark Ages to be, and in its terrible way it was apt.

38. It was exactly as I had always imagined the Dark Ages to be,[Sentencedict.com] and in its terrible way it was apt.

39. In the dark ages of the past, he had been a creature of derision, a thing to be Bandied about in trade or gift

40. Beginning with the bleakness of the dark ages to the present day, we consider Civilisation's articulations and expressions in some of man's finest works of art

41. Luckily, we are slowly emerging from the dark ages of Aphrodisiac research, with the number of good-quality studies — aiming to get to the bottom of …

42. Tradition has it that the Saltire flag originated in a battle fought in East Lothian in the Dark Ages (832 AD). It is said that St.

43. Saxon invasion Ancient Britons were not overrun by invading Saxons in the Dark Ages, suggests a new map based on the DNA of people from the …

44. The series looks at just how close Western Civilization came to dying in the Dark Ages, but that the eleventh century saw a quantum leap that set

45. The word Arcanum (pluralized as "arcana") came from Latin arcanus, meaning "secret," and entered English as the Dark Ages gave way to the Renaissance

46. Implementing a Neo-Feudal system of government that more closely resembles the dark ages, the Anarchs and a handful of other vampires (plus some Independent Clans) have created the Baronies of LATMA

47. With more and more people turning to fuel oil, gas and electricity for their heating needs, the wood heating market fell into a slump. These were the dark ages for traditional wood heating systems and their aestheticism.

48. Medieval Belt Medieval Clothing Medieval Embroidery High Middle Ages Period Outfit 11th Century Dark Ages Lady And Gentlemen Byzantine The West Kingdom Needleworkers Guild A Byzantine purse from the second half of the 11th century, with pearls and Bezants.

49. Marion Crawford, Saracinesca ‎ [1]: It had done well enough for a thousand years, it would do well enough still; it had stood firm against fierce sieges in the dark ages of the Roman Baronry, it could afford to stand unchanged

50. Civilisation —in full, Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark —is a television documentary series written and presented by the art historian Kenneth Clark. The thirteen programmes in the series outline the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages.