Re:Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii
by ciceryadam on Monday December 28, 2020 @07:13AM
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Similarly for central/eastern Europe the Mongol invasion in the 13th century was a major "dark age" setback: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Europe
Uhm, I'd say more like 378 (battle of Hadrianopolis) - 800 (Charlemagne is crowned Emperor). The idea that the whole medieval period is a "dark age" [1] is currently discredited among historians: from 800 until the Black Death of the mid-1300s, European culture and economy grew almost nonstop.
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)