Do you agree that the Middle Ages should be referred to as the Dark Ages?

I strongly agree that The Middle Ages should be referred to
as dark ages because these thousand years were the most brutal and barbaric
times in history of mankind. Science, Arts and technology weren’t developing.
People were too afraid for their lives, their only concern was to stay alive
and have enough food to feed their families and not develop new things and
ideas. They were not properly educated, they were all ignorant. The church controlled
everything and everyone. “The Middle Ages were the golden age of torture
techniques and devices that inflicted horrible pain.” People were falsely
accused of various crimes, but were made to commit to them due to the different
torture methods that were invented during these times. Diseases were also
common, millions of people died from them. If it weren’t for the Dark ages
humankind would have been more advanced and developed in terms of technology
and science.

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