Can someone please tell me when and more importantly WHY B.C and A.D. are now B.C.E and C.E. ? It was BC/AD when I wan in high school or at least my little podunk town hadn't cought wind of the academic alteration to the separation of time due to the apearance of one Jesus Christ. I first encounterd it in 2004 I believe and I was very confused. It just happend to be in some text book I was reading and it gave no explanation as to what it meant. What is Comon era suposed to mean anyway? I'm prety sure those who were in the year 750CE wouldn't think we were so much in a comon era.
I always loved that history was devided essentialy into pre-Christ and post Christ time it seemed so fitting. Everyone has a life deviding moment. Some event or other that split your life in two A: Life before event and B: Life after event. Hahah historys deviding moment was Christ.
... back to that paper I supose...
{please don't comment that it's not exactly to his birth or death/resurection as though Christ were born at year 1 AD or he died and rose again in the year 1 AD. I know the 1 mark is probably somewhere in his late 20's-ish}
