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The Dark Ages is a period in history that covers from 500 AD to about 1000 AD. It's known as the Dark Ages because it's a time when the Roman Catholic Church suppressed the truth. They kept the common man in the dark by not allowing him access to education and primarily by not allowing him access to the Word of God. During this time believers who attempted to practice true Christianity were put to death. Everybody that is really doing anything for God, you can expect to be persecuted. You can expect the hard times to come and it only makes sense that when you have the Dark Ages and you have the control of the Roman Catholic Church and everything that was going on during the 1400s and 1500s.