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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 6710397" data-attributes="member: 6780330">It originates in a period of propaganda, designed to denigrate one culture (Medieval Europe) in order to fluff up another (the so-called "Enlightenment").The term is simply not used by historians or social scientists anymore; the "Dark Ages" were a time of political decentralization and a dearth of written culture in some area for a limited time, but saw a general improvement of less sexy tech (mills, bridges, roads agriculture, etc).Oriental at least has the benefit of referring an area that is the Easter part of a landmass, but similarly involves over-simplifying and denigrating a foreign culture.</blockquote>