Read the excerpt from "How the Internet and Other Technologies Came About."

Because most cities would no longer exist, messages would have to be broken up into pieces, scattered throughout the system, moved around cities that no longer existed, and then reassembled at the destination. ARPA combined these ideas with an existing system to create what is now called e-mail.

Which reading strategy would most help in comprehending the sentence?
breaking it up into shorter sentences and phrases
looking up the longer words
relating the content to personal experience
rewriting each line by hand