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Pre-historically European Borders were quite easily decided. For instance, if one group of dirty nomadic forest dwellers encountered another group, they would pose and posture as much as possible threatening war while simultaneously walking around each other to avoid any conflict. As civilisation progressed fuzzy boundaries were created, mainly being invisibly marked based on how many villages and farms a town could force taxes out of. Some villages were taxed by up to three different towns. Conflict only arose when a village could pay to only one town, resulting in the towns lazily fighting each other for the tax money. Invasions were of a very small scale and only serfs were known to die. However as the enlightenment gave a strong boost to science, weaponry brought tons of tool ways to k

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  • Pre-historically European Borders were quite easily decided. For instance, if one group of dirty nomadic forest dwellers encountered another group, they would pose and posture as much as possible threatening war while simultaneously walking around each other to avoid any conflict. As civilisation progressed fuzzy boundaries were created, mainly being invisibly marked based on how many villages and farms a town could force taxes out of. Some villages were taxed by up to three different towns. Conflict only arose when a village could pay to only one town, resulting in the towns lazily fighting each other for the tax money. Invasions were of a very small scale and only serfs were known to die. However as the enlightenment gave a strong boost to science, weaponry brought tons of tool ways to k
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  • Pre-historically European Borders were quite easily decided. For instance, if one group of dirty nomadic forest dwellers encountered another group, they would pose and posture as much as possible threatening war while simultaneously walking around each other to avoid any conflict. As civilisation progressed fuzzy boundaries were created, mainly being invisibly marked based on how many villages and farms a town could force taxes out of. Some villages were taxed by up to three different towns. Conflict only arose when a village could pay to only one town, resulting in the towns lazily fighting each other for the tax money. Invasions were of a very small scale and only serfs were known to die. However as the enlightenment gave a strong boost to science, weaponry brought tons of tool ways to kill each other and even more extensive ways for Kings to collect taxes out of peasants. Invariably, wars, and there fore border changes became a game of "invade me, invade you". The popularity of this game was so great that, although it started with just two countries involved, other European countries couldn't really resist joining in. It became a joyous border changing party, and boy did the borders change.
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