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sure but what about inter-kingdom trade (and even, not all cities belonged to an empire)



You taxed and regulated at ports of entry


That's not a regulated market, you can sell elsewhere


If that's your criterion for what constitutes a regulated market, then there can be no such thing as a regulated market, because you can always sell elsewhere.

And defining a concept in a way that means it can't exist makes no sense, so that criterion can't reasonably define this concept. (Was that a reductio ad absurdum?)




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