The Dark Ages of Rome were dark because there were not many educated people in that country, hardly anybody could read and write, and so we have do not have many records of what happened in Rome and what happened in the land that used to be Rome before the Barbarian Celts took over.
We can connect this information to our life. Here are some of the ways.
- connect to us: we have good times and bad times, times when we don't want to communicate to others, (although this was not Rome's problem,) and times when we flourish and feel good about ourselves
- connect to our country: our country doesn't always do well. Sometimes we have a lot of money and we spend it well, fortifying and supporting our country, and other times we owe a lot of money and our economy falters, our public services break down and we get discouraged, (although Rome may not have been feeling discouraged)
- connect to a book we have read: this will vary according to person, but i have chosen a book that i am reading. Its name is The Pilgrim's Progress. In it, the main character has some times when he is discouraged and things are going badly, but he also has some good times.
And those are my thoughts for today!
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I'm terrifically impressed with your blog, Emma. You write with a good vocabulary, and you're doing a good job of trying to connect across disciplines.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad, too, that you're talking about how we name specific ages: golden ages, dark ages, etc. These are names that historians come up with and aren't so much names as arguments. For instance, some Christian historians and thinkers want to question whether the Dark Ages were really so dark as we make out. Sometimes that name makes most sense if you begin by labeling later eras "The Enlightenment."
Nice work, in any case.