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2024-09-28 02:26:22 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

Most historians no longer use the biased misnomer "dark ages", Europeans already had maths & bathing long before the middle ages, before Moors invaded Spain & long before Islam existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigothic_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/who-were-moors https://www.medievalists.net/2022/05/dark-ages/ https://time.com/5911003/middle-ages-myths/ https://www.getty.edu/news/no-such-thing-as-the-dark-ages/ https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/just-how-dark-were-the-dark-ages https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/05/25/debunking-the-so-called-dark-ages/ https://www.historyhit.com/why-were-the-early-middle-ages-called-the-dark-ages/ https://www.europeana.eu/en/blog/the-not-so-dark-middle-ages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics https://www.historytoday.com/back-dark-ages https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-myth-of-the-dark-ages-ignores-how-classical-traditions-flourished-around-the-world-180982190/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigothic_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap#Roman_Empire https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/medieval-myths-bingo/#commonpeopleneverwash https://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/did-people-in-the-middle-ages-take-baths/

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• Most historians no longer use the biased misnomer "dark ages", Europeans already had maths & bathing long before the middle ages, before Moors invaded Spain & long before Islam existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigothic_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/who-were-moors https://www.medievalists.net/2022/05/dark-ages/ https://time.com/5911003/middle-ages-myths/ https://www.getty.edu/news/no-such-thing-as-the-dark-ages/ https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/just-how-dark-were-the-dark-ages https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/05/25/debunking-the-so-called-dark-ages/ https://www.historyhit.com/why-were-the-early-middle-ages-called-the-dark-ages/ https://www.europeana.eu/en/blog/the-not-so-dark-middle-ages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics https://www.historytoday.com/back-dark-ages https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-myth-of-the-dark-ages-ignores-how-classical-traditions-flourished-around-the-world-180982190/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigothic_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap#Roman_Empire https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/medieval-myths-bingo/#commonpeopleneverwash https://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/did-people-in-the-middle-ages-take-baths/