Battle Dwarf Gimli on Nostr: Then by your own words, there is no way that access (or lack thereof) could CAUSE the ...

Then by your own words, there is no way that access (or lack thereof) could CAUSE the Dark Ages. The era of the so-called "Dark Ages" is simply the end of the age of the Bronze and Iron Age empires, like Greece, Persia, Rome, etc. It was just a shift in how politics were implemented.