How do you view the Middle Ages?

[Duke John]

Many may see it as as going backwards from ancient Rome, but how many of that was build on the backs of slaves? After the Middle Ages we had the age of colonization, how civil is it really to take control over entire continents and massacre its populations just because you set foot on it? And in the last decades there have been too many genocides and exhaustion of resources to be proud of the modern period. Times have changed but humankind has remained backwards throughout.

So I look at the Middle Ages as a time of different customs, views, politics, technology and living standard, nothing more.