Description

In the time period between the fall of Rome and the spread of the Renaissance across the European continent many of todays European nations were formed the Catholic Church rose to great prominence some of historys most famous wars occurred and a social class system was instituted that lasted over 1000 yearsA lot of activity took place during a period frequently labeled derogatively as the Dark Ages and while that period of time is mostly referred to as the Middle Ages instead of the Dark Ages today it has still retained the stigma of being a sort of lost period of time in which Western civilization made no worthwhile progress