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Re-order Paragraphs
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Re-order Paragraphs
Arrange the sentences into the correct order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- This switch made paper cheap and plentiful, but it also tied the industry's growth to the large-scale logging of forests.
- Manufacturers therefore turned to wood pulp, an abundant raw material that could be processed chemically into usable fibre on a much larger scale.
- By the nineteenth century, rising literacy and cheap printing had increased demand for paper faster than rag collectors could supply it.
- For centuries afterward, papermakers across the world relied mainly on recycled rags and linen scraps as their source of fibre.
- Paper was first manufactured in China roughly two thousand years ago, using pulped plant fibres pressed into thin, dried sheets.