<span>Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the </span><span>discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today.
</span> Europe was mired in a centuries-long dark age before a king named Charlemagne came along and turned on the light switch.
By encouraging arts, culture and education, the 8th-century Frankish king – who would eventually become the first Holy Roman Emperor – tugged the continent out of cultural stagnation that threatened to never end.
Both a fierce warrior and in many ways the first Renaissance man, Charlemagne's achievements on the battlefield and in his laws led to the first notion of a pan-European identity.
The answer to this question is would be B.
<span>The reason why Odysseus continued to taunt the Cyclops as he pulls away
from the shore is to claim his pride of defeating Cyclops and show the latter
his incomparable and unparalleled strength which was able to vanquish him to
his failure.</span>
