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"Dark" just means we don't have any records from that era, doesn't it?
Both usages ("backwards/ignorant" and "literally obscured") are common and have a long history, but both usages are generally avoided in modern academia because of how ingrained the prejudice of "Dark Ages" as a time of aggressive ignorance is in popular cultural conception.
Makes sense. That's true too, we do associate ignorance with the dark ages.
Probably because we don't know much about the time.
We know much more than we did, tbf! There are still a lot of gaps compared to before-and-after, but the study of the Early Middle Ages is quite dynamic and fascinating these days!
I've seen Bill and Teds Excellent homework assignment, lots of good lessons and history in that one