💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Dark ages"
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| Word | Definition |
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| middle agesnoun | (history) The period of primarily European history between the decline of the Western Roman Empire (antiquity) and the early modern period or the Renaissance; the time between c. 500 and 1500 CE. |
| dark agenoun | A time period characterized by ignorance, decline, stagnation, and/or conflict and turmoil. |
| antiquitynoun | Ancient times; faraway history; former ages. |
| high middle agesnoun | (history) The period of European history, between the Early Middle Ages and the Late Middle Ages, that saw great social and political change, c. 1000 to 1300 CE. |
| early middle agesnoun | (history) The period of the Middle Ages that followed the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, c. 500 to 1000 CE. |
| late antiquitynoun | (history) The period of Mediterranean and Eurasian history from around the 3rd to the 7th centuries CE, marked especially by the transition from the Roman and Persian Empires to the Middle Ages and the Islamic and Byzantine civilizations. |
| iron agenoun | An age characterized by the use of iron. |
| ancient historynoun | A period of history generally seen as occurring before the Middle Ages, that is, before the fall of the Roman Empire. Includes Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. |
| migration periodnoun | (history) The age of mass migration of Germanic people in Europe during the early Middle Ages, circa 376 to 800 CE. |
| modern agenoun | Synonym of modern period or modern history (the period following postclassical history, in Europe known as the "Middle Ages", spanning from about 1500 to the present). |
| old daysnoun | A period that was a relatively long time ago; the distant past. |
| stone agenoun | (archaeology, paleontology) A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking. |
| modern periodnoun | The period following postclassical history (in Europe known as the Middle Ages), spanning from about 1500 to the present. |
| modern timesnoun | Synonym of modern period or modern history (the period following postclassical history, in Europe known as the "Middle Ages", spanning from about 1500 to the present). |
| classical antiquitynoun | (history) The era of the height of Greco-Roman civilization in southern Europe, roughly comprising the 6th century BC to the 5th century (AD), although sometimes distinguished from Late Antiquity |
| modern eranoun | Synonym of modern period or modern history (the period following postclassical history, in Europe known as the "Middle Ages", spanning from about 1500 to the present). |
| medieval warm periodnoun | A time of warm climate in the North Atlantic region that may have been related to other climate events around the world during that time, and which lasted from about 950 to 1250. |
| our eranoun | (idiomatic) Anno Domini; the current date era beginning approximately 2000 years ago in the Gregorian calendar. |
| worldnoun | (with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in. |
| little ice agenoun | A period of cooling (not a true ice age) that followed the Medieval Warm Period and continued from about 1300 to about 1850. |
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