Simplify the following text for a Grade 10 native English-speaking person.
Original: The gradual end of the Dark Age that ensued saw the rise of settled Neo-Hittite Aramaean kingdoms of the mid-10th century BCE , and the rise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire .
Simplified: The gradual end of the Dark Age saw the rise of settled Neo-Hittite Aramaean kingdoms of the mid-10th century BCE , and the rise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire .