<span> The U.S. feared Soviet influence in Arab states.</span>
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 ").
<span>b] They were afraid they could not sail home against the winds.
c] They had never sailed so long out of sight of land.</span>
