difference middle age dark age
The Medieval Ages, or the Middle Ages, is divided into three main parts as Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, and Late Middle Ages. Dark Ages is the Early Middle Ages, which is fixed roughly to be from 400 AD to 1000 AD by historians. The term, Dark Ages, was first coined by the Italian scholar Francesco Petrarca who was otherwise called Petrarch. It is interesting to note that there was religious struggle during the period of Dark Ages.