Eli5: How could a nation’s government verify the credentials of an ambassador before modern technology?

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Before high speed, secure communication technology existed in the form of computers/phones, how could a government confidently engage with someone claiming to represent a foreign nation’s government? I just imagine you’d risk someone with the ability to forge documents and put on a good performance being able to declare war on behalf of an unsuspecting country.

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This kind of question is funny to me because I could see someone 500 years from now asking the same thing.

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