Mehmed+the+Conqueror

Here are a few details about my life...
I was born on the 30th March 1432 in Edirne a town in Turkey near to the boarder of Greece, with the name Mehmet bin Murad Khan. But everybody calls me Mehmed the Conqueror because in 1453, when I was 21 years old, I conquered Constantinople and brought an end to the Byzantine Empire. My mother was a European slave called Hüma Hatun and she was Jewish. My father was Sultan Murad the second, so one of my two brothers or me needed to get Sultan too. My two brothers died, leaving me as Sultan. I was the Ottaman Sultan from 1451 till the 3rd May 1481, where I died in Huncarcayiri, Turkey because somebody killed me at the age of 49. My Mentor was Mollar Gürani, who gave me a very Islamic education. When I was eleven years old my father send me to Amasya to govern a thus experience and when I aws twelve my father gave me his throne.



I contributed to the Renaissance in the following ways...
When I was 21 years old, I had my biggest success: I made an end to the Byzantine Empire because I conquerored Constantinople. In April 1453, we went to Constantinople and laid siege. We bombed the walls of them heavly with a 28 feet long monster cannon, were the firing balls sank six feet into the ground, but the Byzantines were able to repair the damage. On the night of the 22nd May, the moon rose eclips and I knew about the legend of them and waited some days to attack them again. During our battle with the By zantines a small gate was left opened on accident, but we didn't need more. We needed three days to conquer Constantinople, as the moon waned.

I think these contributions were particularly important because..
This were very important contributions to the Renaissance because if the Byzantine Empire would never have been fallen it would maybe still excist today and the Renaissance would have had no chance to beginn. I also brought lots of knowledge to the Renaissance from the old books of the Byzantine Empire and because of these books we learned a lot of new things which we didn't knew before. So I think, as Mehmed the Conqueror, that I was a very important person in the Renaissance.

Here is a Video about how I conqured Constantinople:
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