A lot of people consider the Renaissance to be the end of the dark ages.
That was around the time Columbus set sail. The time between the
collapse of the Roman Empire (400 AD roughly?) to 1500 is the likely
range for the 'dark ages'

Nobody, except you, considers the Renaissance to be the end of the dark
ages. Please stop cross-posting this inane (and inaccurate) crap to
neworleans.general. Nobody here cares.

No, don't bother to respond, I've just kill-filed you along with the
other cross-posting spammers.