BC - AD vs BCE - CE Explained in less than 5 minutes!

Hi everyone and welcome back to Exploring Art with Alessandro!

In this video I am going to answer to a question that many of you asked me:
what's the meaning of the abbreviations BC, AD, BCE, CE... So let's find it out :-)

PS What do you think about it? :-)

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[mikalene]

Great explanation. I never understood it until now 👏🏻👏🏻

[billbillerton]

I will always use BC and AD.
If others don't like the religious connotations then we might as well change the names of the days of the week and the names of the planets.
There is no rational argument for the change.

[PantherXS]

Thank you so much I had never knew this properly. You explained it better than my history teacher! Thank you now I'm not going to fail my exams.😀

[a.m.]

Far, far better than all the other vids I have watched on BC and AD. Thanks. AD 2022!

[justchilling]

Besides the first two days, every day of the week is named after a Norse God, and many of the months are named after Greek/Roman gods, the planets of the solar systems are also named after Greco/Roman gods. How come nobody makes a fuss about this, or wants to rename every month and day of the week bc it has a religious origin? There seems to be a bias against things of Christian origin

Christianity has been the most impactful faith ever and Jesus the most impactful figure, it does make sense to base out dating system on his life when those two facts are considered so I don’t see any issue unless we rename everything with a religious origin.

[terryfreeman]

Thank you sir. That's a superb explanation as I always thought AD meant after death. 👍

[speakerrich]

Add my thanks for a clear explanation for the two sets of terms. Well done, Allesandro

[factorsfx]

Finally I got the explanation loud and clear.

[ryanmink]

Well done with the video. I had no idea about bce and ce but I’ll be sticking with the originals. Thanks for your work!

[JackJack-qdyu]

I have watched several videos and I didn't get the point but this one really helped me, thanks a lot

[g.elijahdann]

Very nice explanation Alessandro! Thank you.

[travisdom]

i knew BC and AD... Before Christ and Anno Domini latin of time of Christ....but youtubers have been saying BCE and CE i have to know what's up...so thank you for this...

[TheTruthhurts]

Thanks for the simple explanation and making it easy. I never knew what most of them meant.

[munayeshechiriro]

This has hepled me very I was so confused about this eversince I started college. Yhank you!!!

[giuffre]

The only problem is there is nothing common about this era : )

[Jeremy-euem]

Brilliant content and explanation, Alesssandro. Thank you!

[A_B_C]

I was surprised you have only 1k+ subscriber.
You should have atleast 100K

[ouzel]

I finally found a video i can understand, those other video dont really explain it right

[reuskyle]

I have to do a thesis and I just wanted to say this was really helpful for me tk you for the vid.

[raymanbristol]

Clear explanation. Thank you Allesandro