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You can find "Dark Ages" that have consumed various chunks of the planet, based on when certain central institutions of information collapsed.
Mississippi culture in North America and the Mayan culture in Central America. The collapse of various East Asia dynasties. The sacking of Middle Eastern city states
But we're in a global manufacturing and information economy. If China and the US obliterate critical infrastructure in a war, South Africa doesn't get to pick up on aeronautics or semiconductors or cosmetology where these two juggernauts left off. The info is lost and must be rediscovered.
Nobody benefited when the Library of Alexandria burned.
Nobody burned the library of Alexandria it probably died from neglect, but Europeans did burn ~every book ever produced in central america and extinguished hundreds of unique cultures and languages. Western culture is a dark age IMO. And I'm not saying dark ages don't exist elsewhere. Europe may be fanatically xenophobic, but they aren't entirely unique either. Just the most successful at spreading darkness.