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As of October 2019, the BBC News style guide has entries for AD and BC, but not for CE or BCE. [57] The style guide for The Guardian says, under the entry for CE/BCE: "some people prefer CE (common era, current era, or Christian era) and BCE (before common era, etc.) to AD and BC, which, however, remain our style". [58]
The recorded history of Andhra Pradesh, one of the 28 states of 21st-century India, begins in the Vedic period. It is mentioned in Sanskrit epics such as the Aitareya Brahmana (800 BCE). [1] [2] [3] Its sixth-century BCE incarnation Assaka lay between the Godavari and Krishna Rivers, [4] one of sixteen mahajanapadas (700–300 BCE).
BCE and CE or BC and AD are written in upper case, unspaced, without a full stop (period), and separated from the numeric year by a space (5 BC, not 5BC). It is advisable to use a non-breaking space. AD appears before or after a year (AD 106, 106 AD); BCE, CE, and BC always appear after (106 CE, 3700 BCE, 3700 BC).
Sedentariness began in South Asia around 7000 BCE; by 4500 BCE, settled life had spread, [2] and gradually evolved into the Indus Valley Civilisation, one of three early cradles of civilisation in the Old World, [3] [4] which flourished between 2500 BCE and 1900 BCE in present-day Pakistan and north-western India.
Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .
Kerala. The term Kerala was first epigraphically recorded as Cheras (Keralaputra) in a 3rd-century BCE rock inscription by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka of Magadha. [1] It was mentioned as one of four subordinate kingdoms in southern India during Ashoka's time, the others being the Cholas, Pandyas and Satyaputras. [2]
The history of southern India covers a span of over four thousand years during which the region saw the rise and fall of a number of dynasties and empires. Location of South India The period of known history of southern India begins with the Iron Age (c. 1200 BCE–200 BCE), Sangam period (c. 600 BCE–300 CE) and Medieval southern India until ...
The 1st century BC, also known as the last century BC and the last century BCE, started on the first day of 100 BC and ended on the last day of 1 BC. The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero; however, astronomical year numbering does use a zero, as well as a minus sign, so "2 BC" is equal to "year –1". 1st century AD (Anno Domini) follows.