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We have evidence that most postcivilizational Dark Ages, such as Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire or India in the centuries after the collapse the Indus valley civilization, are sites of danger, poverty, depopulation, cultural loss and civil destruction.[29] Should he survive, the renegade Mesopotamian slave/serf that ran into the w…