I thought we already stopped the Dark Ages
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I've mostly encountered it under the Homeric Age title, which is a great name. You get a decent idea of when and what it means. It was in this introduction that I first saw Dark Ages used, and it just felt like a needless dose of confusion. One Dark Age was already too many.
(as an aside, I would also like if we stopped using Renaissance to describe any period that seems to have produced a lot of noteworthy art and pretentious think pieces, up to and including 15th century Italy)
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