<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.
Answer:
1.The narrator is shocked and worried by Usher's condition. He is unlike the Roderick Usher the narrator once knew.
2.Sorry don’t know the second answer
Hope the first answer helps
Free verse doesn't adhere to patterns, rhythm or rhyme. true
Expository development is explanatory information in a story.