The Middle Ages served as a necessary bridge to bring the world from the ancient times in history to what we now consider modern history. It is considered to be more of a period of growth than decline. Without the Middle Ages the world would not have developed and made the grand leap into the Renaissance and the future. After the fall of Rome, in 476 AD, the world was thrown into a period of chaos …showed first 75 words of 3435 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3435 total…impossible to attain had the Middle Ages not occurred. In a way it was necessary for the people of Europe to live through this 'Dark Age' to be able to unfold into something better and more promising. It is the thought of modern historians, and writers such as Morris Bishop, "...that with the withering of the pagan classic civilization came the first budding of a new culture that was to develop into our modern civilization."