The myth of the Middle Ages as a "dark age" does not lie in the fact that things declined markedly after the fall of Rome—they did. The Middle Ages is known as a"dark age", imagine how life was in that time . It was basically a completely chaos , things got better though ("the renaissance ").
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international support dropped so much in the second term of
Bush's presidency because voters in most of the United States’ allies were
opposed to Bush’s policies in the Middle East. This resulted in a drop in the
popularity of leaders that were supporting Bush. In response to voters’
demands, most leaders withdrew their support of Bush’s policies.
This is a subjective question, but in general, the Founders believed that uneducated people should not be allowed to have a say in the movement of the country, and many people today agree.