Listverse: Top 10 Reasons the Dark Ages Weren't Dark


	Listverse: Top 10 Reasons the Dark Ages Weren't Dark
ramsesemerson
6-10-2008 8:22 PM
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6-11-2008 12:20 AM
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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/history/top-10-reasons-the-dark-ages-were-not-dark/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/listverse.com/img/4150B471-B8FE-4F88-A082-B60AB8999A1C" alt="743Px-Laurentius De Voltolina 001" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/history/top-10-reasons-the-dark-ages-were-not-dark/"><DIV class="itemheading"><SPAN class="itemnumber">9</SPAN>
<DIV class="itemtitle">Scientific Foundations Laid</DIV>
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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/history/top-10-reasons-the-dark-ages-were-not-dark/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/listverse.com/img/8616F9D7-FB0D-464F-BFA2-2468347E20C9" alt="God The Geometer" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/history/top-10-reasons-the-dark-ages-were-not-dark/"><DIV class="itemheading"><SPAN class="itemnumber">8</SPAN>
<DIV class="itemtitle">Carolingian Renaissance</DIV>
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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/history/top-10-reasons-the-dark-ages-were-not-dark/">The Carolingian Renaissance was a period of advancements in literature, writing, the arts, architecture, jurisprudence, liturgical and scriptural studies which occurred in the late eighth and ninth centuries.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/history/top-10-reasons-the-dark-ages-were-not-dark/">  The Carolingians were Franks and the most well known is Charlemagne.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/history/top-10-reasons-the-dark-ages-were-not-dark/"><DIV class="itemheading"><SPAN class="itemnumber">7</SPAN>
<DIV class="itemtitle">Byzantine Golden Age</DIV>
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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/history/top-10-reasons-the-dark-ages-were-not-dark/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/listverse.com/img/201CFA43-0B12-4756-B592-18F45C027464" alt="Paris Psaulter Gr139 Fol1V" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/history/top-10-reasons-the-dark-ages-were-not-dark/"><DIV class="itemheading"><SPAN class="itemnumber">6</SPAN>
<DIV class="itemtitle">Religious Unity</DIV>
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<DIV class="itemtitle">Algebra Arrived</DIV>
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<DIV class="itemtitle">Art and Architecture</DIV>
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<DIV class="itemtitle">Fantastic Weather</DIV>
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<DIV class="itemtitle">Law Becomes Fair</DIV>
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<DIV class="itemtitle">Agricultural Boom</DIV>
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