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The 11 pages that link to Ransom, each with the reason it gives.

• TributeCompared with: Ransom buys release from a particular captivity rather than sustaining a political hierarchy.

• ExtortionBroader topic: Kidnapping and hostage-taking make the threatened harm explicit.

• PiracyRelated: Ransom payments have financed some modern pirate networks and prolonged hostage crises.

• Battle of NicopolisRelated: The capture and ransom of prominent Crusaders shaped the battle’s immediate aftermath.

• Hostage-takingRelated: A ransom makes release conditional on payment, one common form of hostage-taking.

• Barbary corsairsRelated: Ransom payments were a major way corsair captives were returned to their communities.

• Battle of PoitiersNarrower topic: Negotiations over John II’s ransom burdened France after his capture.

• John II of FranceRelated: John’s release required a massive payment and hostages.

• KidnappingRelated: A ransom demand is a common motive and bargaining mechanism in kidnapping.

• The Big LebowskiRelated: The requested ransom becomes the object of Walter’s disastrous intervention.

• Turkish AbductionsRelated: Some Icelanders were eventually freed through ransom and negotiation.