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BCE is the acronym of "Before the Common Era" in indicating dates.

This is becoming the common indicator in place of the old BC or "Before Christ" used to indicate dates more than 2020 years ago. Most of the world does not use the birth of the Christian's Jesus as an important date and the change makes the use of a common dating system more palatable.

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Before Common Era, BCE is generally used interchangably with B.C. (before christ) as not every religion recognizes Jesus Christ.

Alternately, the dating refernce C.E. stands for common era, which replaces A.D. (Anno Domini, or in the year of our lord)

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BCE means "Before Common Era". It is a secular way of describing the time period BC, "Before Christ". This is the way you will usually see time described in scientific, secular historic and archaeologic journals.

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It stands for "Common Era" (C.E), and "Before [the] Common Era" (B.C.E). It has been introduced in attempt to create a non-religiously biased, universal dating system.

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Before the Common Era, used with C.E., Common Era, by non-Christians.

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Yes BCE = Before Christian Era AD = Anno Domini (Lat. Year of the Lord)

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It means before common era

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