<span>The military was not strong enough to protect Europe.
The Vikings were a formidable force, and the English (in the example given) were not organized or managed well enough to withstand such invasions. An English scholar, Alcuin, who became a key figure in Charlemagne's court, even went so far as to say that the Vikings were a manifestation of God's wrath against the immorality of the European people.
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<span>This country severely restricted the rights of its nonwhite citizens under a policy called apartheid, but since 1997 has made progress towards equalityThe country described in the sentence above is
South Africa
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Each day at Longwood House was not very different from the last. The man living – or confined – there would be awoken early, sip a cup of tea or coffee in his white pique dressing gown and red Morocco slippers, then wash from a silver basin.
Mornings could include a ride around the island (a speck in the South Atlantic 1,000 miles from anywhere), but he found it humiliating to be followed by a British officer so put a stop to these excursions.
Instead he kept himself to the damp, windswept and rat-infested house, which stood alone so as better to be guarded by 125 sentries during the day, 72 at night. He staved off boredom by taking long baths, reading, talking with companions and dictating his memoirs.
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