"Dark Ages"?!

[aldrea279]

No: HPFGUIDX 38619

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Margaret Dean <margdean at e...> wrote:
> *cough cough*  My dear Aldrea, one hundred years back doesn't
> take one anywhere near the Dark Ages properly so called.  Late
> Victorian/early Edwardian period, more like, and already well
> past quills and parchment.  Unless you meant "some hundreds of
> years," which is more accurate.  Actually, "more than a thousand
> years" would be needed to reach the true Dark Ages, if I'm not
> mistaken:  historically they begin with the fall of Rome, which
> occurred in the fifth century A.D.
> 
> 
> --Margaret Dean
>   <margdean at e...>

Yes, I did infact mean some hundreds of years ago, not only a hundred 
years ago- I *do* know that the Dark Ages didn't take place in the 
1900's.  But I don't know the exact date of the Dark Ages, so I thank 
you for educating me on it as I have yet to study any of this in 
school(hopefully next year).  I probably shouldn't have made the 
reference without thoroughly checking my dates, and I'll have to 
watch myself more carefully next time, I suppose.

~Aldrea