Historically speaking, ambassadors and emissaries usually returned the refusal by not returning at all!
History if full of messagers, ambassadors, or emissaries sent negotiating only to be kindly refused and beheaded/dehanded and sent back in pieces.
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Ambassadors were considered “protected” and it was extremely bad karma and in bad taste to kill them in antiquity. During the Middle Ages different conquests treated ambassadors differently but we cannot say it was a death sentence for most.
For one the Spartans who killed Persian ambassadors thought they had angered the gods by doing so and no other major kingdom practiced killing them again as it was seen in bad taste. Did some get killed yes but not at a frequency that denotes it was anymore dangerous than any other political appointment
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Historically speaking, ambassadors and emissaries usually returned the refusal by not returning at all!
History if full of messagers, ambassadors, or emissaries sent negotiating only to be kindly refused and beheaded/dehanded and sent back in pieces.
Ambassadors were considered “protected” and it was extremely bad karma and in bad taste to kill them in antiquity. During the Middle Ages different conquests treated ambassadors differently but we cannot say it was a death sentence for most.
For one the Spartans who killed Persian ambassadors thought they had angered the gods by doing so and no other major kingdom practiced killing them again as it was seen in bad taste. Did some get killed yes but not at a frequency that denotes it was anymore dangerous than any other political appointment