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 ").
True, it actually is higher.
I believe the it is the second answer. New rights were created to protect individuals.
To isolate them from the general population, Jews in Hitler's Germany were required to wear a yellow star which said "Jew" on it, so that they could be distinguished everywhere they went and they were more easily deported. This also happened in other countries in Europe during this time.
