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If a golden age starts, it's with destruction and not an election. The Dark Ages started with the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire. The Golden Age started with the fall of Western Roman Empire. Not Istanbul, but Constantinople. The fall of western Rome sent the highly educated people as refugees into the rest of the world where they started writing, reading, and making art. So... Are they excited for the coming destruction, or did I miss a great nation falling and highly educated refugees piling up...
The other way around: first the western empire fell (476 traditionally), much later the eastern empire (1453).