Welcome back to another issue of ancient warfare answers.

I'm Murray Dam, the assistant editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine, and with me is, wait, that way.

Yaspar Autage, the editor.

Today, we're going to be answering a question about hard borders, which is a very topical one,

both in ancient warfare studies and indeed in the world we live in in 2021.

For those of you who might be listening to this in the future, it was indeed a topical question.

So, were there hard borders which stopped imperial expansion, Yasper?

Well, Mary, we're going to have to...

We're going to have to talk about borders.

And they're a bit more complicated than, say, where you are in Australia, where it's kind

of like, you know, there's a sea all around, which helps.

The Romans had a fairly simple attitude to the world, which sort of can be very roughly

summarized as it all belongs to us, except not everybody agrees that it's the case yet.

So from that point of view, there really aren't any borders. There's at best, there's, you know,

because a border requires you to recognize

that there's our land and then there's other lands

and areas in between.

And that's not going to Lutweck and hard borders

and frontier zones and all that's it.

But it is very much something that is that is debated by academics.

What is a border and how does the Lemus and the Limus zone work in the Roman Empire?

Because we all tend to think if we talk about borders,

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