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=Mehmed II The Conqueror by Molly Hinton=

Here are a few details about my life:
I was born on March 30, 1432. My father abdicated from being the sultan of the Ottoman Empire when I was 12, so I immediately became the 7th Sultan of the Ottoman Dynasty [Pictured left], but when I was 14 my father took over again. In 1451 I became the Sultan once again when my father died. When I was 21 I besieged Constantinople and beat the Christians, who fled to Europe with all their libraries and artwork. I renamed it Istanbul.

I contributed to the Renaissance in the following ways:
I attacked Constantinople, the last remaining part of the Roman Empire. When the Christians fled they took all of their artwork and libraries to Europe.

I think these contributions were particularly important because:
The cause of the Renaissance was the fact that all the artwork and libraries went to Europe. All the new culture caused corruption in Europe and sparked the Renaissance.

The picture shown here is:
Old Constantinople, this is what it was like with all the roman culture, but now it is Muslim, and called Istanbul.



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