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Five sentences are given below, numbered 1–5. Four of them form a coherent paragraph; one does not belong. Identify the sentence number that does not fit.
1. Venice was built on a lagoon of small islands specifically because the marshy, hard-to-reach terrain offered protection from land-based invaders during the chaotic centuries following the fall of Rome.
2. What began as a defensive necessity gradually became a commercial advantage, as the city's control of canal routes let it dominate trade between Europe and the eastern Mediterranean.
3. Venetian glassmaking, particularly on the island of Murano, became so prized that glassmakers were forbidden from leaving the city to protect trade secrets.
4. By the height of its power, Venice's navy and merchant fleet controlled ports across the Adriatic and beyond, turning a swamp refuge into the hub of a maritime empire.
5. This transformation from refuge to empire illustrates how geographic constraints that begin as a limitation can, under the right conditions, be turned into a distinct strategic advantage.
1. Venice was built on a lagoon of small islands specifically because the marshy, hard-to-reach terrain offered protection from land-based invaders during the chaotic centuries following the fall of Rome.
2. What began as a defensive necessity gradually became a commercial advantage, as the city's control of canal routes let it dominate trade between Europe and the eastern Mediterranean.
3. Venetian glassmaking, particularly on the island of Murano, became so prized that glassmakers were forbidden from leaving the city to protect trade secrets.
4. By the height of its power, Venice's navy and merchant fleet controlled ports across the Adriatic and beyond, turning a swamp refuge into the hub of a maritime empire.
5. This transformation from refuge to empire illustrates how geographic constraints that begin as a limitation can, under the right conditions, be turned into a distinct strategic advantage.
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Answer: 3
Sentences 1, 2, 4 and 5 trace one continuous idea: Venice's lagoon location began as a defensive necessity and became the basis of a maritime trading empire. Sentence 3, about Murano glassmaking secrecy, is a specific and interesting fact about Venice but does not develop this specific narrative about geography turning into strategic advantage, so it breaks the paragraph's coherence.
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