darkages Old man raves about king in early medieval period Some French seizing ship with silver in a time of barbarity? Pre-Renaissance period Primitive period Period before the Renaissance Era of ignorance Unenlightened period? Renaissance preceder Period of supposed unenlightenment They ended around 1000 Period following Rome's fall Lost time? Unenlightened stretch Dismal period of time A.D. 476–1000 Period during which Charlemagne lived Historic period