PTE Reading
Re-order Paragraphs
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Re-order Paragraphs
Arrange the sentences into the correct order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- Today, the same maps that were once considered obsolete fetch high prices at auction, valued precisely for the outdated worldview they preserve.
- Centuries later, historians recognized that these surviving sheets recorded not just geography but the assumptions and blind spots of the era that produced them.
- Once superseded, most of them were discarded or repurposed as book bindings, and only a small fraction survived in private libraries and church archives.
- As new voyages corrected earlier errors, these older maps quickly became outdated, showing coastlines that did not match what later expeditions actually found.
- Centuries ago, cartographers hand-drew maps using measurements gathered from ship logs, compass readings, and the often unreliable accounts of returning explorers.