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How the World Developed Passports - Neatorama

Passports as we know them are a relatively recent invention in the grand scheme of things. But travel documents of some sort have been around since ancient times. Whether those documents got you into a different country was often a crapshoot. Like many other systems, the birth point of the passport boils down to how you define one. And how you define borders, visas, and rules of passage. You might have guessed by now that the answer to the how and why of passports is war. The journey to the stan