How were country borders secured before the modern times? What

>How were country borders secured before the modern times?
they weren't

>What stopped you from wandering off to other countries?
the exorbitant cost of long-distance transportation

>>78919977
Let's say if you were to walk?

Now that I'm thinking about it, the darkness on the horizon and the prospect of leaving your community probably spelled death. And it only made sense to explore if you were financed and supported in other ways by a monarch for example.

Wow, what interesting times. Maybe the opportunities for the average person weren't as exciting as we think today.

>>78920065
Well maybe in Asia or in the americas
Since Europe was constantly at war you always had some sort of military presence in your borders
But still walking in these huge countries you will probably just walk for days or months before you find more nothing

>2017
>having land borders

>>78920188
It would make sense if there was something waiting for you behind those dark cold and rainy forests (a monastery or other shelter where you know people). They did have guesthouses I guess where you could get by if you had some money (possibly exchange with merchants?). The complexities of those times are hard to grasp for the modern person.

>>78919935
>What stopped you from wandering off to other countries?
Cost, lack of safety, communication problems and possibly some intolerance

>>78920188
>in Asia
The silk road was probably plagued with horsechink bandits.

>>78919935
>walking along a road, hit a border guard
>go off road & walk through the vast swathes of unmanned wilderness
>risk injury, starvation, harm, robbery, exhaustion