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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:

  1. Today's passports build on that standardized design by embedding a microchip that stores the holder's biometric data, making forgery far harder than in the past.
  2. In the years that followed, international conferences worked to standardize the document's size, format, and information so that officials in any country could read it easily.
  3. The upheaval of the First World War then pushed many countries to require these documents of nearly all travelers, since governments wanted tighter control over who crossed their borders.
  4. As nation-states solidified their borders in the nineteenth century, governments began issuing more formal travel documents that identified the holder's name and nationality.
  5. In earlier centuries, travelers crossing foreign territory often carried nothing more than a letter from a local ruler asking that the bearer be allowed safe passage.