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the Taira and Minamoto clans fight to see who should become the emperor
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in 1185 the Minamoto clan defeated the Taira's forces
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Yoritomo's victory made him the most powerful stripping the Emperor of his power
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Yoritomo gave himself the title of Seii-tai-shogun or shogun
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The Mongol leader Kublai Khan conquered china
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The mongols sent a fleet of 900 ships and 40,000 men to attack Japan, but they ended up getting stopped
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The Mongols attacked Japan again with a bigger fleet of 4,400 ships and 140,000 men, but again they lost mainly due to a typhoon that wiped out half of their fleet
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Go-Daigo came to re-establish imperial control after gathering an army the shogun sent one of his best generals to stop the rebellion and the general proceeded to betray the shogun and joined the rebellion
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The rebellion destroyed the shoguns base forcing them and their family to commit suicide
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The period after the fall of the kamakura period
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Ashikaga Takauji made himself the new shogun and chose the Muromachi district as his base but he was lacking resources and money so he struggled to get the support of the shugo