Were the Moors during the Islamic Golden Age responsible for pulling Europe out of the dark ages?

by KinkuKong

How backward was Europe during the Dark Ages? How did the Moors pull Europe out of the Dark Ages?

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In short, no, and historians no longer accept the premise that there was such a thing as "the Dark Ages". The term is purely a popular one, not a scholarly one.