Dark Ages

Meaning

Proper Noun

• The period of European history encompassing (roughly) 476–1000 .
• Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100–750 BC)
• Dark ages of Cambodia (c. 1450–1863)
• Dark ages of Laos (c. 1707–1893)
• Dark Ages, 380 thousand to about 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
• Any relatively primitive period of time.

Origin

• , first used by Italian scholar Petrarch (1304–1374).