9 sentences with “originated”

The modern circus originated in London in the 18th century.

Classical music is a genre of music that originated in the 18th century.

Freemasonry originated in the coffeehouses of London in the early 18th century, and Masonic lodges (local units) soon spread throughout Europe and the British colonies.

Technologies as diverse and important as the steam engine and antibiotics originated in the West.

The false idea of the toothworm, for example, which seems to have originated in Mesopotamia, was also recorded in other distant cultures.

Phoenician cities also served as crossroads for trade in goods that originated as far afield as England (metals were mined in England and transported to the Near East by overland routes).

Pigs have inherited sets of dna that originated in rodents; skunks in North America are born with dna that came from the South American squirrel monkey; trout have genes acquired, it is not known how, from birds.

Likewise, some of the ideas and beliefs that originated in the Bronze Age and Iron Age - most obviously Judaism - would go on to play a profound role in shaping the later history not only of Western civilisation, but of much of world history.

In others, a new style of realistic portraiture in sculpture that originated in the Hellenistic kingdoms proved irresistible to the Romans; whereas the Greeks of classical times tended to idealise the subjects of art, the Romans came to prefer more realistic and 'honest' depictions.