Talk:Chinese (Age of Empires II)/@comment-2605:6000:170D:8861:AD38:E965:2098:C0B9-20190724111408/@comment-122.106.38.60-20191208071326

Yes "Dark Ages" is used wrongly here. This term, as commonly used, applies to Western European / Mediterranean history only (and even then is usually avoided by contemporary historians). It reflects on the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the attendant economic, de-urbanisation and cultural decline this caused. Clearly, describing a period of Chinese (or meso-american, arabic etc) history on the basis of something that happened in pre-modern Europe is plain stupid.

Similar arguments can be made for Feudal / "Castle" and Imperial Ages - but its just a game after all!