REFORMATION When Martin Luther, the jewhater, induced the German reformation he sascrificed the true revolutionary Thomas Muentzer who rightly claimed that the nobility derived their status from the religous authorities.

Luther only created a more aerodynamic version of the prevailing cult by stripping it of its folklore.

The keeping of a low profile and the dimming of the lights allows the darkness to creep in and s the lights of hope.

@icolan It is an excellent example.

Grog is watered down rum.

the dark ages were caused, not by religious problems, but by the Maunder minimum which happens every 500 years or so, when the sun sends less sunlight to the earth causing a mini ice age. the temperature drop caused famine and drought to ravage europe, but caused a bloom in the desert areas that have been muslim. As far as what I would do...move south, find a cave, become a hermit, and spread the word of the local gods for spending money just like the preachers do today.

@heathen77 The fall of the western Roman Empire had a bit to do with it.
Also the Maunder Minimum was in the 1600s, which was late medieval or renaissance time. The dark ages started C 500-700 ad and were done by C 1000 ad.
The earlier Sporer Minimum was around 1100 ad so it's arguable that there was a previous solar minimum which contributed to the dark ages, but I've not seen reliable research to that effect.
Bear in mind that the Western Roman culture (kingdom, republic and empire) lasted more than 1200 years, enduring in that time more than one deep solar minimum. To ascribe the dark ages simply to sunspot activity oversimplifies.

@RobAnybody Pretty sure having the muslims taking Egypt,North Africa, Spain , Greece and into France could have contributed to the Dark Ages.Pretty sure the German Tribes invading Rome probably saved Italy from the Muslims .

@Grassy Islam MIGHT have contributed, but equally the Seljuk invasions could be seen as a reaction to the power vacuum left in the wake of Rome's decline.
These invasions didn't commence until the dark ages were well under way and the major European Islamic presence, the Ottomans, did not exist until after the dark ages had finished.
Add to that the fact that the sultanates were the preservers of much of the classical learning which sparked the renaissance and the most we can say is that they were a complicating factor, not a determinate. Rome would probably have been better served as part of an Islamic empire ( Indeed the name of one, Rum, was the Arabic form of Rome) from the fall until Otto. The germanic invasions hastened the fall and subsequent trauma.