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>> after all is said and done, after all the bloodshed, were going to have to agree to share the city of god. and thats what they settle on. >> an agreement is made. the treaty of jaffa. >> saladin and richard realize both that there is a limit to power and to war. the treaty of jaffa guaranteed that whatever the muslims at that time had in their control would remain in muslim hands. and whatever the crusaders had in their control would remain in crusaders hands. >> the christians get jaffa and ...

Ok everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, now introducing ensure complete! with 30 grams of protein. richard has proposed a radical partition of the holy land where his sister, joanna, will marry saladins brother, al adil. >> so you would have all the crusaders possessions and the muslim possessions being joined by one royal household.

>> joanna is a bargaining chip. during this time period, its important to realize that much like the women of the old testament, the ways in which royal women are treated are about the ways in which marriages can achieve alliances. >> richard proposes to offer his sister, joanna, in marriage to saladins brother, al adil. the agreement would give the christians possession of the coastal lands. the muslims would have gotten most of the hinterlands, and then the capital, jerusalem, would have been ...

And essentially they banned the muslims from living in the city. >> of course the muslims of the region want to throw out the westerners. >> and so this is what prompted the rise of saladin, to take back jerusalem from the christians who had taken it from the muslims. >> saladin was a kurd, an ethnic kurd, who was born in the city of tikrit. >> hes famous for his generosity. in fact, his administrators say, weve got to hide money from him because if he knows hes got it, hes going to give it away...

Of these muslim groups and took back jerusalem from the crusaders. and now whats going to happen to all these muslim groups that saladin united? >> his army is passed onto his warring sons, and so his family descends into internal warfare. when saladin die, muslim unity dies with him. >> i dont think the struggle between saladin and richard was ever a personal struggle. it was always a struggle for what jerusalem represents and what also the role as would-be liberators of jerusalem entail. >> wi...

Then, and mount a charge on jerusalem. without acre, they really had very little hope of doing it. >> learning of the attack, saladin marches the full might of his army to acre. >> but what saladin is not counting on is european crusaders on ships coming towards him in droves, with one of those soldiers being one of the most ferocious warriors of all time -- richard the lionheart. king richard i of england may very well be the polar opposite of saladin. he kills and leaves the dead bodies around...

People said, this is from where jesus was crucified. >> the true cross was supposed to have miracle powers that would give soldiers and anyone who carried that into battle the power to win over their enemies. >> as the crusaders set out, saladin is very well prepared. he has a huge army. he has a lot of water. he has a lot of military supplies. and he also takes the precaution of spoiling the wells that are on the route. >> this was july, so very hot in northern palestine, very dry. saladin orde...

Forever. so by stalling and by not paying the ransom, saladin was in a sense not just buying time for himself, but also hoping that some of richards armies would simply turn and go home. >> richard realizes that saladin is prolonging the fulfillment of the terms of the surrender of acre. and the longer this goes on, the more suspicious he gets. >> he flew into a fit of rage, something that he was known to do. he took the hostages, and he marches them out to a promontory outside of the city of ac...

>> with richards merciless message sent, he turns his full attention to jerusalem. >> richard realized that his best bet to build an attack against jerusalem is to march further south and try to take all the coastal cities because in this way, he can block jerusalem from any kind of serious enforcement from the west. >> as richard the lionheart and his army moves down the coast, saladin loses battle after battle after battle. >> this is richard as a great lethal warrior, sort of scattering peopl...

Much as they could carry with them as possible, and they left the poor in the city as prisoners to saladin. and that made saladin very, very angry. so saladin just let them go, essentially gave up on collecting any ransom from them. >> but saladins main priority after finally conquering jerusalem is to reclaim the haram al sharif with the al aqsa mosque at its center. >> now he had to transform the entire haram back into an islamic space and repair everything that was damaged in one way or anoth...