ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The fall of the Roman Empire ushered in a time of great change throughout Europe, and with it, what is referred to by some as the Dark Ages, a five-hundred-year time period from roughly 500 CE to 1000 CE.

Detailed explanation-2: –The Dark ages began at the end of the Roman Empire, which was also a time when a global cold front swept across the earth, making farming difficult and causing groups of people to die out.-As the Roman Empire fell apart, new groups of people (Barbarians) scattered across the land.

Detailed explanation-3: -To many historians, the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century CE has always been viewed as the end of the ancient world and the onset of the Middle Ages, often improperly called the Dark Ages, despite Petrarch’s assertion.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Dark Ages is a term for the period of time between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Italian Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Migration Period was a historical period sometimes called the Dark Ages, Late Antiquity, or the Early Middle Ages. The period lasted from the fall of Rome to about the year 1000, with a brief hiatus during the flowering of the Carolingian court established by Charlemagne.