Talk:Chinese (Age of Empires II)/@comment-2605:6000:170D:8861:AD38:E965:2098:C0B9-20190724111408/@comment-5157002-20190724201343

In some people's view, yes. From the Oxford English Dictionary, 1989: "a term sometimes applied to the period of the Middle Ages to mark the intellectual darkness characteristic of the time; often restricted to the early period of the Middle Ages, between the time of the fall of Rome and the appearance of vernacular written documents."