>>40368
>there is a reason for that you know. the blame does not come out of thin air.

Actually the term Dark ages has largely fallen out of use among academics as it is misleading. There never was a Dark Age, it was a continuous evolution. Part of the reason they used to call it that was because of the lack of literature from the era but even then you must remember that antiquity spans a huge time frame and actually very little came out of it if you look at it in say fifty year segments. Just look at Alexander the great and the Julio-Claudian line through to Vespasian, two huge moments in history, yet we have very little from the time written about it, we really just have a few accounts from historians years later.

We do have a few famous works sure, things like Plato and that but they also never fell out of circulation, we never rediscovered it monks were still translating it, they never stopped.

Rome herself actually invented little as well. Most of what she had she stole.