Diplomacy and negotiation
What Diplomacy and negotiation means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Saladin retained Muslim control of Jerusalem in 1192 through the Treaty of Jaffa, a negotiated settlement allowing unarmed Christian pilgrims to visit.
The military outcome of the Third Crusade was a negotiated truce rather than the recapture of Jerusalem.
Topics that use Diplomacy and negotiation
- 1A The Age of the Crusades, c1071–1204 – The Third and Fourth Crusades, 1187–1204 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- The changing Muslim response to the crusades, 1095–1192 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Angevin-Capetian territorial rivalry
- Commercial rivalry and opportunism
- Crusader States
- Crusader success and Muslim disunity
- Dynastic instability
- Economic and logistical constraints
- Factionalism and political rivalry
- Geopolitical shifts
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