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Maybe cause there are so relatively few sources from that time period. Almost like it was shrouded in something. Some kinda absence of light or something.
Also a lot of persecution of certain knowledge by a certain religion and decline of certain mediteranean empires.
Except for the east, they were in the middle of a philosophical boom.
The eastern Roman empire was fine for that period though
The eastern Roman empire was fine ~~for that period though~~.