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The idea that the Dark Ages were properly dark is of course suspect, after all we still have most of the works of Aristotle and many of Plato's, and a great deal of technology did survive until the renaissance. In other words, the Dark Age was a wimpy Dark Age. I want a proper Dark Ages, I don't want them to know the difference between Cicero and Plato, I don't want them to remember how to make steel.

Is it doable? How would you pull it off?

In terms of PODs I imagine it would help to not have Catholicism (perhaps earlier Church schisms?) and no Byzantines, but that's rather specific (I'd like something more widely applicable) and that probably won't get me all the way there anyways.

I posted in this forum rather than after-1900 because I don't want to hear nukes or technological answers, I've already read Canticle for Leibowitz I know how that works. It seems more challenging to send a civilization back to the Bronze Age that hasn't got so much natural apocalyptic potential.
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