Mehmed+II+“the+Conqueror”

Mehmed II "the conqueror" was a sultan of the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth century who conquered Constantinople in 1453. The fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans marked the final defeat of the Roman Empire and was one of the defining events in the rise of the modern era in Europe. Buc argues that the fall of the Byzantine Empire, along with the Conquest of Granada, the voyage of Columbus, and the Protestant Reformation, marked the end of the Middle Ages.