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The four sentences below, numbered 1-4, can be arranged into a coherent paragraph. Decide on the correct order and key in the sequence of numbers (e.g., 4123) as your answer.
1. This meant that a single bad harvest, rather than triggering a local shortage, could set off a chain of price shocks across an entire continent.
2. By the eighteenth century, grain markets across much of Europe had become far more interconnected than most contemporaries realised.
3. Merchants routinely shipped surplus grain hundreds of miles to wherever prices were highest, tying distant regions into a single, if informal, trading network.
4. Historians have only recently been able to trace these chains in detail, using surviving merchant ledgers and customs records.
1. This meant that a single bad harvest, rather than triggering a local shortage, could set off a chain of price shocks across an entire continent.
2. By the eighteenth century, grain markets across much of Europe had become far more interconnected than most contemporaries realised.
3. Merchants routinely shipped surplus grain hundreds of miles to wherever prices were highest, tying distant regions into a single, if informal, trading network.
4. Historians have only recently been able to trace these chains in detail, using surviving merchant ledgers and customs records.
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Answer: 2314
Sentence 2 sets the scene (grain markets becoming interconnected). Sentence 3 explains the mechanism of that interconnection (merchants shipping grain). Sentence 1 states the consequence (a bad harvest triggering continent-wide shocks). Sentence 4 closes with a modern historiographical note about tracing this. Order: 2-3-1-4.
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