The DARK AGES

From 476 A.C to 1492 A.C.

It´s a period between two other important periods

The Ancient Era (from 4000 B.C. to 476 A.C.)

The Modern Age (from 1492 A.C. to 1789 A.C.)

Mostly centered in european lands

It´s based on the alleged "UNenlightenment"

It´s pejorative, demeaning and insultive for those who lived during those years

Obviesly made by those who lived after and thought their time was better

Culture

Poetry lacking innovations

Oral tales flooded the continent

Superstition and religious debates

Art

It developed its own forms of expression

Religion

Catholism was the center and reached for the power as well

Theologian: Thomas Aquinas

The Crusades

Knowledge development

Mainly outside Europe

Life expectancy

Better than before and after (not counting The Plague)

The KING

Other Lords

Vassls

Knights

Protected the lords and lands

Peasants

Worked the lands in exchange for protection

Peasants work the land

Keep part of the production

Give the rest to the Lord they work for

No possible mobility

They expanded their power west to Spain getting in contact with Europe.

The Umayyad Dinasty moved the capital to Damascus

They tried to prevent Arabs from fraternizing with Non-Arabs Muslims

This made Non-Arabs angry and they dethroned the Umayyads

The Abbasids took over

They developed culture and took important concepts from Greeks, Romans, India

Made cultural developments

Scientific

Medicinal

Mathematical

Comercial

Art