Exercise 1 - Five breaks (sample answer)

1241 Mongol invasion: towns and churches lost; stone castles followed.
1686 recapture of Buda: the medieval and Ottoman city wrecked; Baroque
rebuilding (for example the palace on Buda Hill).
1838 Danube flood: Pest damaged; linked to neoclassical rebuilding (check).
1945 siege of Budapest: every Danube bridge destroyed; the Castle district
badly hit.
1956 revolution: damaged blocks repaired or demolished.
Check dates and examples against a current source.