People's sense of their own territory (which could also be referred to as ‘territorial senses') had been established after going through a lot of changes for a very long time, and the process has vividly mirrored the ancient societies' progresses in terms of inner development. Since the New Stone age, the residents' perception toward their own living spaces had become more sharpened and detailed, but such perception lacked comparative ability and the sense of relativity, as yet it was not a kind of perception that was either aware of other resident groups and their own living spaces, or created in the midst of social exchanges with those such groups. During the Bronze age and the Iron age, village groups(聚落 群) which were composed of defense perimeters(in the form of a village : 防禦聚落) and nearby villages started to appear, resulting in the establishment of independent living zones, that were exclusively owned spaces and distinctively separated from other village groups. Between the village groups existed vast middle zones, and these zones were considered to be sacred areas therefore no one was allowed to disrupt or disturb. Those were places where no one has any kind of exclusive claims, yet everyone was welcome to share. Then, when the Seongeub(城邑) states(小國 entities) that were composed of Guk-eub(國邑) units and Eubrak(邑落) villages started to emerge, those middle zones between village groups were diminished in sizes and started to vanish, while middle zones between Soguk(小國) entities also started to vanish as well. Just like the middle zones between villages, these middle zones between Soguk entities would also have been absorbed into the economic bases of the Soguk entities' Sujang(首長) leaders. As the regions under the Soguk entities' authority expanded, issues regarding regulation and control began to surface, and as the Soguk entities started to gain ability in terms of military force and political administration, the sense of territory finally began to be formed. The enforced ruling authority of the king was the driving force which made this kind of changes possible. The kings' ruling authority in the ancient states absorbed the newly obtained territories into the royal family's ownership and labelled them as spaces that belonged to the King(王土), and intended to establish a ruling & control model which would engulf the entire territories and people under his command. Yet as we can see from the situation of the Ha-dae(下代) period of the Silla dynasty, there were some developments in territorial senses, as people started to perceive discernment among concepts such as the land that belonged to the king or the royal family, or land that belonged to the state or public sectors, or land that belong to the private sectors and civilians. And since some time around the 8th. century, the scope of territory to which the concept of Kings' land was still being applied gradually diminished, and such concept instead came to serve and some times help reproduce the ruling order of the King. The territorial senses of the ancient periods, and their perception of the state's territory, show some elements that were very similar to the elements of the following periods. Military control, administrative ruling, and taxation were all regulated and executed by the central government. There were also a relationship established between the central and the local regions, and although it was not like a regularly established alert system was present at the border areas, the concept of borders did exist. What was different from those of the later periods, was the following elements of the time. There was still a sort of religious concept regarding territories and especially border areas remaining. There was the thought believing all land belonged to the King, but such thought existed not as a politically engineered ideology, but as a thought nearly projecting the reality which strongly employed the concept of 'The King's Land' and shaped the public's perception of state and the King. And there were still resident groups or inhabited areas being discriminated and subordinated(隸民) because of their social ranks, as no legal instruments were in place to regulate situations that involved multi-faceted or plural backgrounds, or determine borders and frontiers. Those were all characteristic features of the territorial structure of the ancient states, and people's perception of such structures.