Dating Systems

Question 1

What does B.C stand for?

Answer 1

Before Christ

Question 2

What does A.D stand for?

Answer 2

Anno Domini (Latin Year of the Lord)

Question 3

Who created the system of B.C and A.D?

Answer 3

A Christian monk named Dennis the Short

Question 4

In B.C., the ____ the number B.C., the farther back in time you are.

Answer 4

Larger

Question 5

In A.D., the ____ the number A.D., the closer you are to the present.

Answer 5

Larger

Question 6

What does B.C.E stand for?

Answer 6

Before Common Era

Question 7

What does C.E stand for?

Answer 7

Common Era (The era that is common to us)

Question 8

Why was the B.C.E/C.E system created?

Answer 8

In order to take religion out of dating

Question 9

What is the starting point for each of these systems?

Answer 9

1

Question 10

Why was the B.C/A.D system created?

Answer 10

Dennis the Short was ordered my Pope John I to create a new dating system. Rome was considered to be a Pagan society, and he didn’t want to use their system