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  2. Common Era - Wikipedia

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    For example, the 2007 World Almanac was the first edition to switch to BCE/CE, ending a period of 138 years in which the traditional BC/AD dating notation was used. BCE/CE is used by the College Board in its history tests, [ 59 ] and by the Norton Anthology of English Literature .

  3. Timeline of ancient history - Wikipedia

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    The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...

  4. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Aegean Civilization (Crete, Greece and Near East; c. 3000 BC – c. 1050 BC) [4] Iron Age Europe (c. 1050 BC – c. 500 AD) Early Iron Age (c. 1050 BC – 776 BC) – part of the Greek Dark Ages; Classical antiquity (776 BC – 476 AD) Archaic Greece (776 BC – 480 BC) – begins with the First Olympiad, traditionally dated 776 BC

  5. All of this applies to spaces and BC/BCE labels in all of the patterns. Examples: 100 BC, 100 B.C, 100 BCE, 100 BC, etc. Year ranges If there is a range of years BC, convertors should recognise both numbers as years BC. The range may have different kinds of dashes in the middle. On either side of the dash there may be up to one space.

  6. List of decades, centuries, and millennia - Wikipedia

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    12th millennium BC · 12,000–11,001 BC 11th millennium BC · 11,000–10,001 BC 10th millennium BC · 10,000–9001 BC 9th millennium BC · 9000–8001 BC 8th millennium BC · 8000–7001 BC 7th millennium BC · 7000–6001 BC 6th millennium BC · 6000–5001 BC 5th millennium BC · 5000–4001 BC 4th millennium BC · 4000–3001 BC 40th ...

  7. List of archaeological periods - Wikipedia

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    3) Neolithic (c. 6500 – 4000 BCE, up to c.2000 BC in some areas) see Mehrgarh and Bhirrana. 4) Chalcolithic (c. 4000 – 2000 BCE). 5) Bronze Age (c. 3100 – 1100 BCE) see Indus Valley civilization. 6) Iron Age (c. 1100 - 500 BCE). i) Proto-history (c.1500 - 500 BCE) known as Vedic period. ii) Historical period after 500 BCE. East Asia East ...

  8. 1st century BC - Wikipedia

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    The 1st century BC, also known as the last century BC and the last century BCE, started on the first day of 100 BC and ended on the last day of 1 BC. The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero; however, astronomical year numbering does use a zero, as well as a minus sign, so "2 BC" is equal to "year –1". 1st century AD (Anno Domini) follows.

  9. Gezer calendar - Wikipedia

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    The inscription is not a formal calendar, as it describes agricultural seasons with imprecise dates, rather than precise divisions of time as would be required for a ritual or bureaucratic calendar. As such, some of the time units comprise two months rather than one, and none are referred to by the month numbers or names known from other ...