Worth remembering that the "Dark Ages" were named that by those with a heavy Roman bias and otherwise weren't particularly dark, having experienced innovations like standardized handwriting (punctuation and consistent lettering and casing and such), art, science, math, agriculture, and laid the groundwork for the later Renaissance.
That gives us 1 generation being right and we're roughly 100 generations removed from Socrates. I'm not sure that I would hang my hat on a 1% accuracy rate just yet.
