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( Dark Ages, , ,) There is a reason why the Dark Ages were called "dark." After the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, what had been imperial control, not just in Rome but across Roman territory, what had been progress and day to day living as an average Roman, there was a break. Trash was no longer collected. Water systems failed to be maintained. Art, literature, were all curtailed. The barbarian hosts that had absorbed the Empire, especially in the West, did not immediately subsume what had been the role of Roman authority. The end of Rome was also the end to Antiquity. Humanity would have to re-lean the fundamentals of civilization all over again and it would take the next Millenium for that education to be effected. Europe would now seem to be on the precipice of a new Dark Age and it will be dark. To expand on the analogy, the Continent, especially in the East, is looking at the approaching winter with the same dread as any Game of Thrones episode. Like the weakened...