What does B.C.E., C.E. and A.D.E. means in terms of history?

Answer 1

The Common Era (CE or C.E.), sometimes known as the Current Era , is the period of measured time beginning with the year 1 (the traditional birthdate of Jesus) to the present. The notations CE/C.E. and BCE/B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) are alternative notations for AD/A.D. (anno Domini, Latin for "in the year of the Lord") and BC/B.C. (Before Christ), respectively.

Although the term common era was first used by some Christians, it is now the term preferred by some as a religiously-neutral alternative. Others criticize it as an unnecessary euphemism or an attempt at political correctness, pointing out that the pivotal year 1 still centers on the supposed date of Jesus' birth. The phrase 'Common Era' has its equivalents in other languages: For example, since the People's Republic of China succeeded the Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese have used the literal translation of Common Era, gōngyuán, for date notation. Additionally, the term "CE" or "C.E." is preferred by academics in some fields (e.g. by the American Anthropological Association).

Answer 2

BCE is Before Common Era and CE is Common Era. These are abbreviations to explain times in history. CE means anytime in the years 1 [if it existed] to now and beyond. BCE means time 'before Christ', or before the year 00 [for example, the Roman or Greek times, which are something like 100 BCE - that is one hundred years before Christ (depending on what you believe, of course) came or before the common era started].

These are all the politically correct secular terms that are often used today. Before BC was all that was needed for BCE and it stood for Latin that essantially meant 'before Christ'. AD was used where the CE [or Common Era] is used now, which stood for "Anno Domini" in Latin - or "the year of the Lord" in English.

ADE is not a term I am familar with - and its not in wikipedia or any other site I could find. Are you sure you are not mixing up the AD and BCE abbreviations somehow? They're certainally all tricky to get right.

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Answer 3

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What does B.C.E., C.E. and A.D.E. means in terms of history?

Answer 4

B.C or B.C.E = Before Christ or Before Common Era.
C.E= Common Era (Started at the birth of Jesus)
A.D= Anno Domini "in the year of the lord"

Answer 5

B.C.E. means before common era. C.E, means common era. A.D. means anno domini. B.C. means before Christ. B.C.E. and B.C. mean the same thing. C.E. and A.D. mean the same thing. They refer to the way we count years in history, before or after Christ's birth. Non-Christians are often uncomfortable thinking of the world's history in terms of Christ, but they need to refer to the same years as the Christian world. Therefore, they use the terms B.C.E. and C.E. Anno domini, by the way, means in the year of our Lord (Jesus Christ).

Answer 6

B.C.E. = Before Common Era
C.E = Common Era.
A.D.E. = ?
A.D. = Annon Domini (Year of our Lord) - same as C.E.

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Answer 7

Originally B.C. referred to the time before the birth of Christ and A.D. referred to the time from the birth of Christ. A.D. means "anno domini" (the year of our Lord). This way of measuring time came in during Roman times and after Rome became officially Christian. I'ts how the western world has measured time since then.

Enter the politically correct thought patrol, who didn't like having time measured relative to the birth of Christ. So, what can we do about it, they said. And they answered themselves we can change the meaning of the words. So B.C.E. came to mean before the common era and C.E. came to mean the common era. What the common era refers to is anybody's guess. Anyway, this new and meaningless way of measuring time is now being used by most archaeologists. A.D.E. is a new one on me, so I can't help you there.

History has to be recorded in some way. Often it has been measured in terms of the reigns of kings. That makes it hard to keep track of time because reigns change and different countries have different reigns--sometimes kings co-reigned and so when the pope had the B.C./A.D. system started it helped keep countries in sync. And it was related to an historical event. The new common era thing is a way of hiding history, since it is intended to simply hide the historical rationale for the BC/AD system.

AD counts forward from the birth of Christ.. BC counts backwards from that historical event.

In Japan time is counted by the rule of the emperors. So when the Emperor Showa died in Showa 63 the next year was Heisei 1. You can see how that can make it difficult to judge time over long periods of history relative to the history of other countries.

The Mayan calendar is possibly the most interesting in the world because it counts back to the beginning of the world.

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Answer 8

B.C.E : "Before common era." This abbreviation has come to replace the previously used B.C. ("before Christ"), and covers the period of history prior to the birth of Christ

C.E.: "Common era." This abbreviation came to replace the previously used A.D. (anno Domini, Latin for "in the year of the Lord") because of new knowledge regarding the date of the Christ's birth. The common era covers the time from Christ's birth to the present day

A.D.E.: I can't find this in term of history but check this out : http://www.answers.com/topic/ade-1. May be it means after the death of Christ!

Answer 9

Current Era

Answer 10

BCE Before the current era

CE Current era

A.D.E. Anno Domini Era