First off, Hollywood=/=history So all of you thinking Christianity was behind some big conspiracy to stop technology please, do us all a favor and staaaahp your ignorance right here. [url=http://listverse.com/2009/01/07/top-10-myths-about-the-middle-ages/]First a few myths[/url] [url=http://www.cracked.com/article_20186_6-ridiculous-myths-about-middle-ages-everyone-believes.html]Few more myths[/url] [url=http://blog.acton.org/archives/55608-the-dark-ages-not-so-dark-really.html]Now For the real dark ages and what they offered and gave to us[/url] [url=http://archive.archaeology.org/9809/abstracts/darkages.html]Archeological PROOF, and written papers on the real impact of the dark ages[/url] TLDR; The dark ages, were a time of enlightenment, a time of philosophy and broader thinking, a time for art and architectural beauty. It was a time of of most importance, the expansion of the human mind! If it were not for the middle ages we would never have had the intelligence to even think up something such as harnessing electricity let alone a computer. That is all, and now you know.