Mongol And Samurai Dbq

Japanese in a country in North-east Asian, and it stretches for 1200 miles crescent in the Pacific Ocean. Japan is rich with volcanoes and hot springs, and it is also deal with earthquakes and tidal waves. However, today, Japan has high economic growth, and became a world economic powerhouse. In history, Japan was known when it had miracle victories in invasion of Mongol and samurai that is warrior of Japan.

In 1266 , the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan set his foot on Japan' land in his campaign to subdue all of China, and sent a message to the Emperor of Japan. In this letter .he call emperor of Japan is : a ruler of small country" and advised the Japanese sovereign to pay him tribute at once. Unfortunately, Japan had let him down when the Khan's

The king can't pay for all of them then just 120 out of 10000 receive their rewards. And when the Japanese emperor was worried about the rewards, Kublai Khan was preparing for his second invasion sent a six-man delegation to demand that the Japanese emperor travel to Dadu and kowtow to him. The Japanese responded by beheading the Chinese diplomats, a terrible infringement of the Mongol law against abusing emissaries. After the first invasion Emperor of Japan increased efforts to defend against the second invasion . They built a defensive wall around Hakata Bay, five to fifteen feet high and 25 miles long in 1276. In the spring 1281, e Mongols sent two separate forces. An impressive force of 900 ships containing 40,000 Yuan troops set out from Masan, Korea, while an even larger force of 100,000 sailed from southern China in 3,500 ships .Kublai Khan was determined to smash Japan this time. The Mongols' plan called for an overwhelming coordinated attack by the combined imperial Yuan fleets. was delayed by difficulties in provisioning and manning the large number of ships they had. Their Mongol fleet set sail, suffered heavy losses at Tsushima, and turned back. In the summer, the fleet took Iki-shima and moved on to Kyūshū, landing at several different locations. In a number of individual skirmishes, known collectively as the Battle of Korean or the "Second Battle of Hakata Bay", the Mongol forces were driven back to their ships. The Japanese army was heavily outnumbered, but had fortified the coastal line, and was easily able to repulse the auxiliaries that were launched against it. On August 15, a massive typhoon, the now-famous kamikaze, struck the Tsushima Straits, lasting two full days and destroying most of the Yuan fleet. Contemporary Japanese accounts indicate that over 4,000 ships were