dark_ages has definitions from the fields of medieval,history
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[ noun ] (medieval,history) the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance

Synonyms

middle_ages

Used in print

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

The same conclusions can be drawn from the other physical evidence of the Dark_ages , from linguistic distribution , and from the survivals of early social , political , and religious patterns into later ages .

Further we cannot go , for the Dark_ages deserve their name .

Throughout the Dark_ages , it is clear , the Greek world had been developing slowly but consistently .

While many tokens point forward , the main achievements stand as a culmination of the simple patterns of the Dark_ages .

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