
Chapter 2: Europe in the Middle Ages
The Industrial Revolutions
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The Origins of the Dark Ages
There was no such thing as a modern state. A system of vassalage was developed over a 500 year period we called the Dark Ages. Western Europe and its Latin church did give Islam cause for concern around 1100 when an army of nobles and knights marched into the Levant and sacked Jerusalem. The same snobbish cultural superiority argument we see today was hurled against Westerners for most of history.
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