Which empire did Sultan Mehmet II rule during the Renaissance?
Mehmet II, (Fatih Sultan Mehmet) called the Conqueror, born in March 30, 1432, died in May 3, 1481 was sultan of the Ottoman Empire in1444-46 and 1451-81. He extended Ottoman control of southeastern Europe to the Danube and of Anatolia to the Euphrates. His father, Murat II, tried to abdicate when he was only 12 years old, but his unsuccessful first reign, made his father to return to power. After his father’s death, he tried to create a world empire like that of the Romans by first conquering Byzantine Constantinople in 1453 and rebuilt it into the prosperous Ottoman capital of Istanbul. He conquered Serbia in 1459 and the Morea by 1460, extending the empire in Europe to the Danube and the Aegean despite resistance from Albania and Venice. He conquered Anatolia in 1461 as far as the Euphrates from the Turkmen principalities, but failed to push further due to resistance from the Mamelukes of Syria as well as from the White Sheep Turkmen of Iran. He was just beginning new campaigns to c
