8 sentences with “copied”

Assyrian scribes collected and copied learning and literature from all over the Middle East.

In contrast, Renaissance artists studied and copied ancient frescoes and statues in an attempt to learn how to realistically depict people and objects.

The printing press moved text production in Europe away from the "scribal" tradition, in which educated people copied important texts by hand, towards a system of mass production.

In the same way, the Romans copied the Greek architectural style and, along with surviving Greek buildings such as the Parthenon, we can still appreciate the Greek architectural aesthetic.

The Five Dollar A Day, which would eventually be copied by his competitors, represented the solution to a problem of capitalism: who would buy all those things, now that entrepreneurs had acquired the capacity to produce them?

What later came to be regarded as the founding body of thought of Western civilisation - ancient Greek philosophy and literature - was thus widely analysed, translated and copied outside Greece itself in the Arab kingdoms of the Middle Ages.

Overall, the printing press led to a revolutionary increase in the volume of all kinds of written material: in the first fifty years after the invention of the press, more books were printed than had been copied by hand in Europe since the fall of Rome.

Better known was the Protocol of the Elders of Zion, a document claiming to be the minutes of a meeting of international Jewish leaders that copied entire sections of Goedsche's "Speech" and combined them with several equally spurious accounts of Jewish political machinations.