The abbreviation BC means ____.

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The abbreviation BC means Before Christ.
The birth of Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity, is used to assign years used in dates. So, 3000 means 3000 years after the birth of Christ. The term BC- Before Christ denotes all dates before the birth of Christ and historians count them backward. AD is another term associated with dates which stands for two Latin words, ‘Anno Domini,’ meaning ‘in the year of the Lord (i.e., Christ). So 2022 can also be written as AD 2022. Other terms are CE (another term for AD) and BCE (another term for BC). CE stands for ‘Common Era’ and BCE for ‘Before Common Era’ because most countries use the Christian Era to determine dates. The dating system in India began about two hundred years ago. Indian historians sometimes use BP, meaning Before Present.

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