For most of human history there were no borders in any recognizable modern sense. When you see the famous map of "Rome at its greatest territorial extent c. 117AD," or a map of medieval Europe, etc., you're really looking at an anachronistic approximation.

— Jacob Maccabacharach (@jakebackpack) November 26, 2018

Anyway, I think an interesting way of looking at the establishment of contemporary style borders is through the lens Marx used to analyze the enclosure of the commons.

— Jacob Maccabacharach (@jakebackpack) November 26, 2018