dark age
Time of ignorance
A dark age is a period of decline, stagnation, or lost knowledge—times when civilization seems to regress or go dormant.
The term comes from the era following the fall of Rome, once thought culturally barren.
Now it's applied broadly: the dark ages of medicine, Before the internet, that was the dark age of information access.
Often plural and often capitalized when referring to the historical period.
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- ignoranceAbsence of knowledge
- declineDecrease or refuse
- fall of RomeAncient superpower's disintegration
- barbaricSavagely cruel, uncivilized
lost knowledge · feudal · feudal system · plague · superstition · collapse · monks · manuscripts · fall · Rome · ancient ruins · knights · castles · peasants · famine · warfare · burning torches · illiteracy
- civilizationempires, empire, civilizations, dynasty, kingdoms
- history termsempire, dynasty, colonialism, Renaissance, Enlightenment
- sports historyOlympic history, Olympic records, Olympics, Olympic Games, Olympic training
- erasera, epoch, period, Victorian era, colonial era
- historical cyclesrise and fall, renaissance, decline, boom and bust, economic cycle
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
dark agerenaissance
Period of renewed vitality
golden age · enlightenment · cultural renaissance · classical age · age of reason
dark ageenlightenment
Profound spiritual awakening
age of reason · age of discovery · scientific revolution · modern era · information age
dark, age, darken, darkly, darkness, darker, darkest, ages, aged