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dark for two reasons. Dark,
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in the most obvious way,
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because we don't have any writing, no record of them.
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We can't see.
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It's dark. The other, dark,
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in the sense of gloomy, not good, bad;
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this is a hard time, a poor time,
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a wretched time, a miserable time.
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These are dark times.
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So, that's what is meant by the term,
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Dark Ages, and that's what does follow
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the fall of the Mycenaean world.