JimBowie1958
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The Europeans were lost until the ancient learning of pre Christian info was relearned from Islamic scholars....The Church sought to censor anything that went against the dogmatic ecclesiastical theory of the Roman Catholic Church.
The only thing that held the Western Roman Catholic Church together was the Holy Roman Empire..Which was controlled by those that could reconquer the old Western Roman Empire.
The thing that allowed the Europeans to break out of the dark ages was trade with Eastern nations and sea voyages that discovered new territories they could exploit.
The 'darkness' of the Dark Ages is over rated immensely.
European civilization advanced under a hybrid Roman-Celtic-Germanic leadership under the separate rule of German kings, the parts that didn't fall to the Muslims or Avars or Magyars or Huns or Mongols or Vikings, etc.
Europe in the 9th century nearly was destroyed, Charlemagne defended it, revived it and gave it a sense of itself again.
His work has been undone in the last century and Europe is diminished for it.