Hi everyone! I'd like to thank you all for your ongoing support! Please let me know in the comments if you have any feedback, or if there is a topic you'd like to explore 😃
@@jacobkoen8994 Funny you mention that! My next video will be about peasant life and how it changed throughout the middle ages (Early Middle Ages -> Late Middle Ages). It should be coming out sometime next week. Stay tuned :)
Sigh. It's called the dark ages because in Europe, 'we' (not my people as I'm Scandinavian) went from having roads which lasted for centuries, and were even used during the dark ages - although they weren't maintained. To having dirtroads. The Romans had aqueducts, they had access to fountains and sanitation indoors, which no one in the medieval times did. The Romans had complex mathematics, a keen knowledge of architecture, they had complex machinery, they had inquisitive minds which gave us the philosophy books such as Marcus Aurelius' meditations, De Oratore by Cicero, On Good and Evil by Cicero. (And many more) The Romans had art which far exceeded that of anything until pretty much modern times, just look at art from any time during the middle ages (discarding the renaissance & the age of enlightenment as this is not usually counted as the middle-ages, and definitely not the dark ages where we got the likes of Michelangelo''s Sistine chapel - As we can not know with great certainly what were the greatest paintings in roman times, because they would have been destroyed when christianity took over.) And compare that to Augustus of Prima Porta. The contrast is not comparable. So no, it's not called the dark ages because 'no progress was made' it's called the dark ages because of what was before: The intellectual, artistic and factual accumulation of mankind was nigh extinct by contrast to what had been. All thanks, to christianity.
Amazing video as usual❤
I really appreciate the encouragement! Thanks for your continued support :D
Hi everyone! I'd like to thank you all for your ongoing support!
Please let me know in the comments if you have any feedback, or if there is a topic you'd like to explore 😃
Could you do a video about peasant life?
@@jacobkoen8994 Funny you mention that! My next video will be about peasant life and how it changed throughout the middle ages (Early Middle Ages -> Late Middle Ages). It should be coming out sometime next week. Stay tuned :)
Anyone clicking on a Dark Ages video isn't this confused about it.
Sigh.
It's called the dark ages because in Europe, 'we' (not my people as I'm Scandinavian) went from having roads which lasted for centuries, and were even used during the dark ages - although they weren't maintained. To having dirtroads.
The Romans had aqueducts, they had access to fountains and sanitation indoors, which no one in the medieval times did.
The Romans had complex mathematics, a keen knowledge of architecture, they had complex machinery, they had inquisitive minds which gave us the philosophy books such as Marcus Aurelius' meditations, De Oratore by Cicero, On Good and Evil by Cicero. (And many more)
The Romans had art which far exceeded that of anything until pretty much modern times, just look at art from any time during the middle ages (discarding the renaissance & the age of enlightenment as this is not usually counted as the middle-ages, and definitely not the dark ages where we got the likes of Michelangelo''s Sistine chapel - As we can not know with great certainly what were the greatest paintings in roman times, because they would have been destroyed when christianity took over.)
And compare that to Augustus of Prima Porta.
The contrast is not comparable.
So no, it's not called the dark ages because 'no progress was made'
it's called the dark ages because of what was before: The intellectual, artistic and factual accumulation of mankind was nigh extinct by contrast to what had been.
All thanks, to christianity.