The Dark Ages

            Cybo said, the Dark Ages happened hundreds of years ago. Sorry, they didn’t happen at all. There was a period when the current Western Culture is very embarrassed about its lack of importance. So, it is referred to as the Dark Ages. In fact, the culture was doing very well for itself, but lost interest in military adventurism and expansionism. This period was the Byzantine Empire. When western Rome fell into decay from internal squabbles, Constantine, packed up his Roman Empire and move it to Constantinople. He sacked the Pagan Gods and adopted Christianity as the official religion and had a book written in Greek, called the Holy Bible. This was not translated into Latin, until the fourteenth century by a monk called Erasmus.

            During this period the good folk of Spain were doing well for themselves with another version of heavenly leadership and they also took good care of what had been developed by the Greeks, Egyptians, Iranians, Indians and Chinese and probably many others who don’t currently get recognized for their contributions.

            Eastern and western Rome was built by slave labour. Slave labour seems to have been a fundamental part of Western Culture from the outset. Culture is mainly perception, so it can be argued that enslavement is a state of mind, just imagine, those chains around your ankles are actually garlands of flowers and you will feel a lot better about yourself.

            The Vikings were the big suppliers of slaves to both the Moors of Spain and Orthodox of Byzantine. At one point they were supplying so many slaves, a goat cost more than a slave. I suppose they didn’t consider cannibalism. That would have quickly brought the price of goats down and re-instated the value of the non-citizen slave.

            Dos said, where did you get all this information Cybo?

            Cybo said, there is a building that has all of these books on shelves and you can go in and read the books.