Question

* 15 POINTS*

1.One of the islands the Mongols invaded in Japan was Tsushima. What was the result of this battle?

2.What happened to the Mongol ships in Hakata Bay?

3.Kublai Khan sent another ambassador to Japan in 1275. What did he realize as a result of this interaction?

4.How did Japan prepare for another Mongol attack?

5.Was the second Mongol invasion larger or smaller than the first?

6.How much of the Mongol fleet was stranded or destroyed after a typhoon struck?

Answer 1

2. By morning, most of the Yuan ships had disappeared. According to a Japanese courtier in his diary entry for 6 November 1274, a sudden reverse wind from the east blew back the Yuan fleet. A few ships were beached and some 50 Yuan soldiers and sailors were captured and executed.

4. Japan responded by beheading the six envoys and prepared for a second attack from the Mongols by taking a census of all available weaponry and warriors. All of Kyushu's landowning class was also tasked to build a defensive wall around Hakata Bay measuring five to fifteen feet high and 25 miles long

5. Kublai Khan's second invasion fleet was a whole lot bigger than the first one.