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Without looking, name five figures from the Dark Ages off the top of your head. Any figures…..who can do it?
Without looking based on your time period 476-1000 A.D.1. Mohammad2. Charlemagne3. Charles Martel4. Uthman5. Amr ibn al As6. Justinian7. The Venerable Bede ?8. Geoffrey Chaucer ?9. Eusebius10. Josephus
Okay strike Eusebius that was wrong. And strike Josephus I was wrong on that one too. Wow. Wrong on Chaucer too…way too late. So I goofed on the last three.
Okay strike Eusebius that was wrong. And strike Josephus I was wrong on that one too. Wow. Wrong on Chaucer too...way too late. So I goofed on the last three.
I was going to say....You could also do Pepin, Charles the Fat, Clovis...I believe Boethius. And you were given Justinian simply by looking at the board icon for the Dark Ages 🙂 ....you could also add his wife, Theodora, to the list while we're at it. And yes, Stumpfoot, Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 A.D., so it's quite easy to remember that he reigned during this period. My point with this is that it's difficult to recall figures from this era. Despite the 500+ year span of this age (more than the Middle Ages, more than the Renaissance, more than the years of ancient Greece that influence us), it has gone by largely unnoticed. I bet if you asked random people on the street the question (like Jay Leno does) you'd be lucky if you got 1 in 10 to give you even one person who lived during the Dark Ages.
They would probably say: Kojak, starsky and hutch and Mcmillian and wife, the 70's, the dark ages of TV.
I'm getting very rusty though. There was a time I could have rattled off 50 names for you, but I haven't done much in this time period for so long. I am ashamed really.
Donnie I'm sure if you were locked in a room with nothing but a pencil and a piece of paper for an hour you'd come up with 50, or somewhere not far from that number. The names are stored in your memory I'm sure. You'd be able to consider figures in individual fields such as politics, military, philosophy, religion, literature, and so forth instead of trying to think of “anyone” in the Dark Ages.
Well I used to make it my thing to be well versed in every time period imaginable. Since I grad school, I have become more and more specialized in U.S. history and have gotten away from my first love of ancient history and the Middle Ages. I used to love reading about Thomas Aquinas and his war against Averroes and Avicenna, and stuff like that, but golly I'm losing it. I used to know everything about Ancient Greece, Mythology, Church History, Islamic History etc….but now, I guess I've gotten lazy and if you don't use it, you lose it.
Well I used to make it my thing to be well versed in every time period imaginable. Since I grad school, I have become more and more specialized in U.S. history and have gotten away from my first love of ancient history and the Middle Ages. I used to love reading about Thomas Aquinas and his war against Averroes and Avicenna, and stuff like that, but golly I'm losing it. I used to know everything about Ancient Greece, Mythology, Church History, Islamic History etc....but now, I guess I've gotten lazy and if you don't use it, you lose it.
Thats my problem. U.S. history is my first interest, so the dark ages fell by the wayside a long time ago.
Without looking, name five figures from the Dark Ages off the top of your head. Any figures.....who can do it?
JustinianGeisericCharlemagneSt. Patrick (correct period?)Alaric
Without looking, name five figures from the Dark Ages off the top of your head. Any figures.....who can do it?
...ugh...think I'll go stick my head in the oven... :-[ :-[
