Geographic barriers are limits agreed and established among neighbor nations to delimit their territory. A boundary is a división, whether symbolic or physic a geographic barrier defines where a country begins and where another end. Also known as “ frontiers” in cases where an actual barrier like a fence or a wall differentiates the surrounding Territoires. For any empire, these definitory limits represent wealthiness, for the population, cultural, political and socio-economical definition of production and therefore, sustainability and also power through a diversity of resources. Territorialization- implicit in these barriers- also means identity for the population and the governments who rules inside of those limits.
Through history the expansion of conquest territories had defined the power of the empire, the biggest, the greatest, being the best examples the Roman empire and Charles V empire, who inherited the biggest empire from 1506 to 1519, extending from America to whole Europe and parts of North Africa.
References:
Georges Duby. Atlas histórico mundial. Barcelona: Debate, 1987. 66-67.
