There is more to it than that, your post indicated that you thought so, don’t you think that civilization and order come into play, cavemen roam around some vast region of geography but at some point man advances and needs lines drawn and ownership to make a farm, or a mill to grind wheat, or agreed upon lines to end constant warfare or feuds, records to transfer a place after death, lines drawn well enough to allow for a fence to stop the pig rancher’s pigs from eating the farmer’s crops.
We are touring Germany and Austria for three weeks. The countless small fiefdoms along the Rhine were just like that. Castles built all over to protect your area from the fiefdom a few miles down the river.
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