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Explanation: The 'Dark Ages', the first ~500 years of the Medieval period, are sometimes called such either because of the relative paucity of sources (modern) or because of the perceived ignorance of the period (somewhat outdated). The term itself is somewhat controversial in academia anymore - but don't ever tell a historian that it was called the Dark Ages because 'electricity was not yet invented'. You'll deserve whatever you get!
And in terms of the art, it's is a 12th Century German piece depicting the biblical assassination of Canaanite general Sisera by Jael, using a tent peg.
Sisera and Jael, at Tanagra.
Your girlfriend will peg you harder if you tell her that you were wrong, and electricity is far more recent, and the dark ages far more older than you thought - and then tell her the Dark Ages were ackchually called dark because it was before human beings found fire.
So electricity was invented? I'm getting mixed messages.
Obviously it was called the dark ages because that's when the sun took a few years off to go on holiday.
No no, that was the ice ages.
Nah, that was the time someone left their fridge open too long.
No, that was the deluge.
Nah that was the time I forgot I was running a bath for a year.
Bro, it was an ice age!
Man tells girlfriend clearly erroneous historical fact
Girlfriend pegs man
30 goto 10
Plot twist: the man is a time-traveller, and to him the medieval era lasts from the 5th century to the 34th century.
Looks like she's impaling him with a clarinet.
Give em the ol' squidward special
doot doot for the dumdum