The '' dark age'' is a term developed by an Italian scholar in the 1300s named Petrarch. Petrarch named the period following the middle ages ''dark'' because of the many incidents that have happened. The middle ages in Europe had many significant and unpleasant events such as the ''black death'' ,the decline in education, trade, laws being developed, and universities in construction and so on. As stated in Document B the ''dark age'' is ''dark'' because of all the suffering, decline in trade, manufacturing, education, and writing, some parts of Europe became isolated from the rest of the world and many more.
When Europe was not in a ''dark age'' it was called the ''growth age.'' Europe was in a ''growth age'' because many good things were happening in that time period. Europe was not in a ''dark age'' because there was many universities in the process of being developed.'' Construction on the cathedral began in 1163 and was completed in 1345 ( Document F ). There was also many more universities being developed and with more universities being made there is more education and with more education there is more ideas being …show more content…
As stated in Document B Europe was in a ''dark age'' because of all the people suffering, the decline in the most significant things that were needed to keep a civilization running. ''Cities grew smaller and in some cases practically disappeared, and Western Europe became a region of poor farming communities, each isolated from the rest of the world'' ( Document B). The plague that caused the Black Death was deadly, families abandoned each other and the dead were carried non-stop to their burial ( Black Death homework). '' The Black Death was such a frightful thing that when it got into a house, as was said no one remained'' ( Black Death homework). Half the population died out because of the