Let’s say you have a trade caravan. Why should you be allowed to make money on my territory that belongs to my ancestors/I conquered fair and square? Secondly,

Let’s say you have a trade caravan. Why should you be allowed to make money on my territory that belongs to my ancestors/I conquered fair and square? Secondly, I have a hard time understanding abstract notions of property rights. I do understand the natural law that fleshy meat is weak against pointy spears. Globalisation as we know it requires massive amount of military effort, diplomacy, and international law to be kept alive. In the past trade was taxed to death and was limited to luxury goods only. You could only trade in small volumes to limit the risk of theft. So all essential goods had to be made in your own territory. I also think that this is the big difference between (classical) trade and (modern) globalisation. Trade has existed since ancient times, but globalisation, where a large fraction of a nation’s essential goods are from foreign countries, is very recent and artificial.