Muhammad Ahsan Khalid

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Today’s Activity: 7th of April’2020.

Answer the Following questions: All these questions surrounds the middle ages in Europe.

Q1. Define Dark Age.

ANS: Migration period, also called Dark Ages or Early Middle Ages, The name of the period refers to
the movement of so-called barbarian peoples—including the Huns, Goths, Vandals, Bulgars, Alani,
Suebi, and Franks—into what had been the Western Roman Empire. The term “Dark Ages” is now rarely
used by historians because of the value judgment it implies. Though sometimes taken to derive its
meaning from the dearth of information about the period, the term’s more usual and pejorative sense is of
a period of intellectual darkness and barbarity.

Q2. What Caused the Dark Ages?

ANS: The Fall of the Roman Empire: The end of the world began in AD 476, when Odoacer deposed
Emperor Romulus. The great Roman Empire had been falling apart for hundreds of years, but that was the
final straw. Rome fell into chaos and ruin, into the hands of the various tribes. The city was sacked, its
occupants put to the sword, and the barbarian tribes moved in.
The Little Ice Age: From about AD 950 to AD 1250, around the time of William the Conqueror and the
Battle of Hastings, the world enjoyed a warm period. After that, however, the world began to get colder
and colder. This phenomenon began around AD 1300 and lasted in varying degrees all the way up to
1850.
Famine: The Little Ice Age ushered in a period of horrible famine for Europe. The overwhelming cold,
the cold that stole up on Europe on little kitten feet stole food right out of the mouths of sleeping children.
The trouble with famine is that it’s really, really hard to think about scientific discovery and art and
mathematics and culture when it’s all you can do to survive.
The Black Plague: Rome has fallen. The world’s plunged into a cold, pitch-black, chaotic hell. Crops
won’t grow, children aren’t being fed, people’s bodies are weaker than ever. The science and medicine of
the ancients has been all but forgotten. Nobody understands the concept of contamination or germs,
people are living in close, crammed, dirty quarters all together with animals and manure. It’s a recipe for
disaster.
A Lack of Good Roads: This is, surprisingly, the crushing blow. Not the Fall of Rome, not the Black
Plague or famine or wars or the Little Ice Age, but the simple fact that people couldn’t circulate. When
Rome fell, there was nobody there to maintain the roads, nobody to protect travelers. The roads fell into
disrepair, traveling became dangerous. People went missing, or died.
Q3. When was the Dark Age in Europe? Specify the period of time.
ANS: The early medieval period of western European history—specifically, the time (476–800 ce) when
there was no Roman (or Holy Roman) emperor in the West or, more generally, the period between about
500 and 1000, which was marked by frequent warfare and a virtual disappearance of urban life.

Q4. For what reason, Dark Age in Europe was called as such.
ANS: Some scholars perceive Europe as having been plunged into darkness when the Roman Empire fell
in around 500 AD. The Middle Ages are often said to be dark because of a supposed lack of scientific and
cultural advancement. During this time, feudalism was the dominant political system.

Q5. Who ruled Western Europe during the Dark Age?

ANS: For the most part Western Europe stays under the control of various Germanic kingdoms. Like
Visigoths, Franks and the kingdom of Odoacer.

Q6. What power the Church got in this age?

ANS: During the high Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic Church became organized into an elaborate
hierarchy with the pope as the head in western Europe.

Q7. What was the major Cause of the Great Schism?

The immediate cause of the Great Schism was the patriarch of Constantinople's and the Pope's decisions
to excommunicate one another, which led to the creation of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern
Orthodox Church. Several other factors contributed to this separation, including the division of the
Roman Empire, which led to increasing differences in culture, politics, religion, and language between
the Western Roman empire and the Eastern Roman empire.