I need help with time periods back in ancient days...SIMPLE QUESTION.?

Question

I never knew what B.C. and A.d. really were...I know like
Before Christ or whatever and After Death but i am needing to find pictures of ancient gods between 1000 b.c. to 500 a.d.

now can u explainthe time bridges??

i found a painting that was painted in 1559...is that inside those time frames?? can someone explain the time frames to me in simple terms??

Answer 1

a.d. stands for anno domini, which translates to 'in the year of our lord'

What you're looking for is anything from 1 b.c. to 1000 b.c. -or- 1 a.d to 500 a.d.

It goes like this...

1000 b.c., 999 b.c., 998 b.c. (they're going backward, working towards....) 2 b.c., 1 b.c.

Then, you start counting forward..

1 a.d., 2 a.d., 3 a.d., etc. (all the way up to today - 2007 a.d.)


These days, people don't really use 'bc' & 'ad' anymore. It's now more common to see 'bce' (before the common era) and 'ce' (common era)

Answer 2

B. C. does stand for "Before Christ", but A. D. is for "Anno Domine", Latin for "Year of our Lord". It is helpful to know that these divisions are inaccurate; Christ had to have been born sometime between "6 B. C." and "4 B. C.", which is when King Herod the Great died. But we're stuck with the system now.

Google Egyptian, Greek, or Roman Mythology for lots of pictures of ancient gods.

A simple time frame (these are approximations):
1. Prehistory: 40,000 B. C. to 6,000 B. C.
2. Ancient Times, or Antiquity: 6,000 B. C. to 476 A. D. (the last Roman emperor lost his throne.
3. Middle Ages: 476 A. D. to the Fourteenth Century
4. Renaissance (the start of the modern world): 14th through 16th centuries.
5. Age of Enlightenment: 18th Century
6. Modern Period: 18th Century through now.

You can put numbers 4, 5 and 6 together and just say "The Modern World". Some books will give slightly different dates, but this is accurate enough for a simple outline.

Your 1559 painting would come under "Renaissance".

Answer 3

B.C. is Before Christ
A.D. is NOT After Death- is stands for Anno Domini- which is Latin for Year of Birth (as in Christ's Birth).

1. Which ancient gods? Greek or Roman?
2. You may find photos of artwork dating back to 1000 B.C. and 500 A.D. Most likely you will find photos of statues of the gods.
3. You may find murals on walls of ancient homes- like in Pompeii- mostly mosaics and murals depicting ancient gods.

The painting in 1559 is way past your time requirement.
A time frame is like a 'guide' you are to use the dates 1000 B.C. to 500 A.D. as your time frame or guide.

For statues- try "Googling" the names of the gods and goddesses you are thinking of. I suggest you try the "images" portion of Google.

There are many statues of ancient Greek and Roman gods done in the years 500 B.C. to the first century A.D.

Then, I suggest you try "Googling" (include images) for Pompeii + murals.

Good luck.

Answer 4

B.C. means before Christ
adv. Abbr. B.C. or B.C.
In a specified year of the pre-Christian era.

A.D. does NOT mean after death.

A.D. means Anno Domini, a Latin phrase meaning “in the year of our Lord.”

A.D. is an abbreviation used with a date, indicating how many years have passed since the birth of Jesus.
The abbreviation may appear before the date (a.d. 1988), or it may appear after the date (1988 a.d.).
It stands for Anno Domini, a Latin phrase meaning “in the year of our Lord.”

Answer 5

1559 is NOT between 1000 BC and 500 AD

Answer 6

not at all... before christ time goes the other way around.. which means 1000 was after 1001 in time a c time goes normally 1000 in before 1001....