The dark ages were based. Least they were for personal liberties, and education was nowhere near as bad as people think. There’s simply less material that has survived 1000-1500 years. There’s evidence that the trade routes didn’t break down either (there was apparently a Byzantine port in Cornwall. Later the Venetians moved this port to Portsmouth). Sure the vikings were a thing, but I’d take the Heathen army over a surveillance state any day.
The dark ages were based. Least they were for personal liberties, and education was nowhere near as bad as people think. There’s simply less material that has survived 1000-1500 years. There’s evidence that the trade routes didn’t break down either (there was apparently a Byzantine port in Cornwall. Later the Venetians moved this port to Portsmouth). Sure the vikings were a thing, but I’d take the Heathen army over a surveillance state any day.