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2024-05-12 06:57:18 UTC - HELPFUL
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Most historians no longer use the biased misnomer "dark ages" Illiteracy was not 99% in Europe, Moors did not introduce education, reading, writing, bathing, alchemy, chemistry or the astrolabe. Most of the claims in this post are incorrect. 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://twitter.com/fakehistoryhunt/status/1689823058410803200 https://www.medievalists.net/2023/11/mythbusting-illiteracy-in-the-middle-ages/ https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/oldest-readable-writing-found-in-europe-4325454/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap#Roman_Empire https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/medieval-myths-bingo/#commonpeopleneverwash https://twitter.com/fakehistoryhunt/status/1731865574248948098 https://twitter.com/fakehistoryhunt/status/1724028943324373228 https://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2002/crabb/history.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrolabe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chemistry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_of_the_Greek_Classics
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