Can we get some fact checking on the OP's post please?
Let's see.
This actually is for the writers. I am binge watching season 3. In the episode Die Trying we get an I'll Informed speech from Saru about the Daaarrrk Ages.
Please writers stop this. Modern Historians do not use this term anymore.
Correct.
It is now the Pre Medieval period. .
Incorrect. The era is firmly Early Medieval, with the transitionary era of the Migration Period, and Late Antiquity, but the 'Dark Ages' of C. 476-1066 or so is Early Medieval.
It was not a time of darkness. It was a time of improvements to agriculture, water mills, the beginning of the abolition of slavery in Europe.
Europe created innovations the Muslims knew nothing about.
There were some improvements to agriculture, such as the Ottonian Renaissance which saw more horses used than oxen, Watermills are a Greco-Roman invention that simply took off, and the Muslims DID know about them since they were in constant contact with the Eastern Roman Empire and applied them thusly.
Nor was it the beginning of abolition of Slavery in Europe: it would persist, and again, transform - what is Serfdom? What was the plight of the land-bound, villa-bound Coloni of the late Empire? This is a debate that rages until this day, and slavery by itself, thralldom, chattel slavery, would continue throughout the High Medieval Era - William the Conqueror, for instance, simply banned its export, but it would continue (along with Serfdom) long after the doomsday book of 1086. Italy itself was a major player of the slave Trade (Venice, Amalfi), the Gaels and Norse kept slaves up to the 900s-1000s, and to say nothing of Christians buying and using Muslim slaves, especially in Southern France and Iberia, or German enslavement of Pagan Slavs. But so far, OP seems to like Pagans being thrashed and Christianity can do no wrong?
Compare this to Rome where a visit to the temple of Saturn was accompanied by human sacrifice. I consider the period after paganism to be the first rays of dawn.
There is no record of Human sacrifice at the Temple of Saturn. As said above, sometimes Triumphs would end with ritualistic choking of captives, but this was a practice that died out long before the Roman Empire did. And that was at the Temple of Jupiter. This statement reeks of Christian Propaganda, of which there was much (along with revisions of older texts) during the transition era, but even this claim seems oddly particular and obscure, I can't find anything about the Temple of Saturn or Saturn himself related to human sacrifice...?
Attack me. I will not reply.
Firstly, no one is going to 'attack you', that seems to be a thing you're expecting. Like you make this post, obstinately on one thing, then go a pro European-Christian rant, and expect to be attacked for
that. Sounds like a 'you' problem.
And then why the
frak are you on a discussion board? Not to be attacked, no, but to discuss, at least? A star trek board, no less. You're a bit closed minded, and that's unbecoming of a Trekker, no?
Do you really think the DIS writers come here to look at feedback? They wrote in the term 'Dark Ages' because they're using the LCD and simplest form to convey information to their audience. They know what that means as a shorthand. And 'Dark Ages' is still a term we use liberally: The Bronze Dark Ages, Mayan Dark Ages, Irish, all of which we know are bogus, but still holdfast even in Academic and especially Lay circles.
Maybe Saru is even referring to the Digital Dark Ages of the Post-Atomic and 21st Century Era, which is a real concern.... It would explain why everyone goes up to the 90s and nothing from the 21st century is even mentioned beyond the war, hah.
