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CE is an abbreviation for Common Era. It means the same as AD (Anno Domini) and represents the time from year 1 and onward. BCE is short for Before Common Era. It can be used instead of BC (Before Christ) and stands for the time before year 1. There was never a year zero.
As the name suggests, BC or Before Christ refers to the number of years before Christ was born. AD or Anno Domini is the period after Christ was born. BCE and CE stand for ' Before Common Era ' and ' Common Era ' and are alternatives to BC and AD respectively. Timeline showing AD and BC.
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era. Common Era and Before the Common Era are alternatives to the original Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ (BC) notations used for the same calendar era.
Minoan civilization in Crete and the Aegean. 1900 BCE - 1100 BCE. Mycenaean civilization in Greece and the Aegean. c. 1500 BCE - c. 500 CE. The Gandhara Civilization flourishes in what is today the northern portion of Pakistan and Afghanistan. c. 1200 BCE - c. 400 BCE. The Olmec civilization flourishes in Mesoamerica.
In this introductory chapter we unfold the events of that period as though they took place in a single day, from “sunrise” in the Year 1200 bce to “sunset” more than two millennia later in the Year 900 of the Common Era (ce).
CE stands for “Common Era,” “Christian Era,” or “Current Era” and represents years 1–2015 (at the time this was written). BC and BCE represent the same time frame, but with BCE, the religious aspect is removed.
‘CE’ means Common Era, or Current Era. ‘CE’ is equivalent to ‘AD’ as a date and places the ‘common’ or ‘current’ era as being from the suggested birth of Christ at 1 AD (e.g. Battle of Hastings was in 1066 CE). But, it removes the explicit claim of Anno Domini which means ‘year of our Lord’.
Timeline: 10th century. Years: c. 900 - c. 1000. Subject: History, Early history (500 CE to 1500) Publisher: HistoryWorld. Online Publication Date: 2012. Current online version: 2012. eISBN: 9780191735530. Jump to a year: BCE CE.
Timeline: 9th century. Years: c. 800 - c. 900. Subject: History, Early history (500 CE to 1500) Publisher: HistoryWorld. Online Publication Date: 2012. Current online version: 2012. eISBN: 9780191735523. Jump to a year: BCE CE.
empire construction that occurred between c. 1200 BCE and c. 900 CE, and highlight the critical networks of exchange that developed between all the different types of human communities that populated the Afro-Eurasian world zone. Humans had occupied the islands and mainland of Southeast Asia since