What makes the era "common"?
2006-09-19 12:47:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
To answer your question: Common Era & Before Common Era, some people say "current" instead of 'Common" The world basically uses the Gregorian Calender Hence it's in "common" use by everyone.
2006-09-19 17:57:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"BCE" and "CE" were started by the politically correct crowd. The actual dates should be BC and AD. BC stands for "Before Christ" and AD stands for Anno Domini, meaning "The year of Our Lord." These dates were established be the Christian cultures for dating the years. Other cultures adopted the dates because of European influence in the days of exploration and colonization. The politically correct crowd came up with this "common era" hogwash because they thought using the correct terminology would "offend someone". By the way, the moslems date their calendars from mohammed, the Chinese from the day the last dynasty started (modern times would be from the Revolution), the Jews from alot earlier than the Christians.
2006-09-19 23:11:48 · answer #2 · answered by Scottish Dachsy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a way of referring to time periods relative to the birth of Christ without referring to Christ. So B.C.E. is the same as B.C. and so forth.
2006-09-19 19:57:02 · answer #3 · answered by bambam 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it's in common usage by different people and cultures, whether or not they are christian.
2006-09-19 21:06:13 · answer #4 · answered by UKJess 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the Christian BC and AD are BCE and CE respectively
2006-09-19 19:50:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋