Like, I don’t think passports exist, right? Could a person travel to another Empire/Kingdom?

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    like, wasn’t the great wall of china (which is actually multiple walls, btw) more a military thing to keep the raiders out? not ordinary merchants or pilgrims.

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      Yes, to keep the invaders out. That’s border control, no? To control the flow of people between borders, military or otherwise, is border control. To control borders.