It was the coming of Nordid barbarians - Goths, Lombards, Vandals, Franks, Vikings, Normans, Huns and Avars - that destroyed the great Medish civilization of Rome. Um...no. Rome collapsed under the massive weight of it's own size, greed, ambition and decadence. PS- Huns were not Nordic, they were not even White. They were Mongoloids as far as I'm aware..     The dirtiest creatures of God. They have no shame in voiding their bowels and bladder, nor do they wash themselves when polluted by emissions of semen, nor do they wash their hands after eating. They are, then, like asses who have gone astray. They may have intercourse with their maiden while their comrades look on. At times, a crowd of them come together to do such things.   That's cool.      Who, you might ask yourself, took Europe out of the dark ages?   First of all you mean the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages and Middle Ages are not synonymous, FYI. But I believe the answer you are looking for is the Renaissance. Italians(northern), and Byzantines who were fleeing from Constantinople to Italy as Constantinople fell to the Turks in the 15th century.