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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 952664, member: 26302"]Understood, as I do have a minor in history, and own many hundreds of resources for personal research. I am not a junior high student of the era. However, as numismatics DOES have to put dates on periods of coinage due to classification of empires, I was simply asking if the accepted date of the end of the classic age and beginning of "Dark Ages" was accepted as still about 476. The accepted start of Byzantine coinage has nothing to due with the empire except for the coinage reform of Anastasius, and it happened to be a somewhat convenient date. By definition the term "Dark Ages" was only ever meant to mean western europe, not worldwide since many civilizations flourished in this time. Even in Europe it there was some enlightenment, but most historians agree that the loss of the resources and security of the Roman empire was a major step backword for progress in most areas of study. The major leaps in learning that was facilitated by European "rediscovery" of ancient texts from the fall of the Moors and Constantinople are major indicators of this. I didn't know "Dark Ages" was so politically incorrect nowadays. Then again I never care for politic correctness either.[/QUOTE]