How did people who speak different languages communicate in the past if language barrier is a thing even now?
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You have to remember that in bygone eras language was very different. It wasn’t standardised like it is today. Borders weren’t as “hard” as they are today. Language in many areas was a gradual shift from one to another rather than a hard stop. So someone living in the south of France, for example, may have spoken a language that was very similar to someone who was living in northern Spain (as we know it today). The further south into Spain you go the further the language would shift away from French and towards Spanish. (This is entirely an example and the history of language is far more complicated. France had numerous languages in the middle ages and up to the French revolution.)
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