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The 17th century BC was the century that lasted from 1700 BC to 1601 BC. Nebra sky disk, central Europe 1600 BC. The inlaid gold depicted the crescent moon and the Pleiades star cluster in a specific arrangement forming the earliest known depiction of celestial phenomena.
- 18th Century BC
The 18th century BC was the century that lasted from 1800 BC...
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- History of BC/AD
- BC/AD & The Bible: Jesus' Birth
- The Common Era
- BCE/CE in The Present Day
The Hebrew calendar, still in use, is based on a concept known as Anno Mundi ("in the year of the world") which dates events from the beginning of the creation of the earth as calculated through scripture. Ancient civilizations such as Mesopotamia and Egypt based their calendars on the reigns of kings or the cycles of the seasons as set by the gods...
The only problem with this dating system was that no one knew when Jesus of Nazareth was born. Dionysius himself did not know when Jesus was born and his system makes no claims at dating that event definitively. He seems to have arrived at his calculations through a reliance on scripture and known history of the time to create a Christian calendar ...
Dionysius is not responsible for the BC/AD designations, however. He was only interested in dating events from the incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth and this was another aspect of the problem he faced: was one to date Jesus' incarnation from his nativity or from the annunciation? Dionysius also never explains how he resolved this issue. The actual d...
The use of BCE/CE in the present day, then, is not an attempt by the "politically correct" to remove Jesus of Nazareth from the calendar but has precedent in history. The usage began when people were questioning received knowledge and forming their own educated opinions about how the world worked and what constituted reliable sources. Kepler uses "...
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The 15th century BC was the century that lasted from 1500 BC to 1401 BC. Map of the Near East in 1450 BCE. Events. Statue of Thutmosis III at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. 1504 BC – 1492 BC: Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant. [1] 1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Battle of the Ten Kings took place around this time. [2]
The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCI), to December 31, 1700 (MDCC).. It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV ...
Linear A. Shang dynasty. Categories: Centuries. 2nd millennium BC. Commons category link is on Wikidata.
