Sunday, March 8, 2009 12:35:16 PM
Dark Age: 8th Century & before
This simply refers to the relative lack of written record, "silent" as much as "dark." A time of backwardness when people acted more primitively. "My fate is to live among varied and confusing storms. But for you perhaps, if as I hope and wish you will live long after me, there will follow a better age. When the darkness has been dispersed, our descendants can come again in the former pure radiance." —Petrarch
Monday, December 15, 2008 2:10:39 AM
Modern Age: 18th-19th Century
Science, medicine, entertainment, technology, culture, etc., are all priorities found in the modern age. This time period can be marked as the dawning of human establishment. Efficiency and advancement defines this age. “The concept of the modern world is distinct from an ancient or mediaeval world rests on a sense that the modern world is not just another era in history, but rather the result of a new type of change. This is usually conceived of as progress driven by deliberate human efforts to better their situation.†–Wikipedia