Who decided that 2000 years ago we should just start over at year 1? And everybody else was just like yeah cool we're all gonna go along with this?And when are they gonna do it again?Should the start of the industrial revolution or end of WW2 have marked a new era that started over at year 1 or was everybody just like nope not significant enough
>>18391507It was because Jesus dumbass.Year 1 was supposed to be the year of our LORD.However, they actually fucked up by accident.Herod died in 4 BC and Jesus was born when Herod was alive. So most historians assume Jesus was born in 5 or 4 BC.Lol.
>>18391507>Who decided that 2000 years ago we should just start over at year 1? And everybody else was just like yeah cool we're all gonna go along with this?Nobody did and we didn't start at year one. The BC/AD system was invented by Dionysius Exiguus around the year 500, and so we didn't have to start at year 1, we started at year 500 or whatever. What's funny is he got the actual birth year of Jesus completely wrong but we consider Jesus' birth to be the start of the Epoch anyways
>>18391507Bait but, yearly calendars were not commonly used before a certain point, because knowing what year it was, was not important. Instead dates were relative and based on the ruling dates monarchs or religious leaders or whatever big event happened most recently. 0 was selected because yearly calendars became important for international Christian religious organizational purposes in the Middle Ages. Then Westerners spread that as they conquered or traded with other nations. There are artifacts of this in many places. For example, in Japan it is still common to refer to eras (even today) based on the title of the Emperor in charge, and some dates are given relative to that, even. You could start a new year zero whenever, but convincing others to join in is probably tricky.
>>18391522>For example, in Japan it is still common to refer to eras (even today) based on the title of the Emperor in charge, and some dates are given relative to that, even.Even the west still does this to some degree, for example "The Reagan Administration" is often shorthand for a period of time in the 1980s as an example and so on.
>>18391507What's fucked up is even after deciding this they changed it two more times.Who knows when the fuck we are.
>>18391507The Venerable Bede popularized the use of the Anno Domini system in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, roughly around 731 AD.
>>18391507Jews and christians invented linear time. It's all a lie
>>18391935>we wuz time invantors and shiett!!
>>18391507Not everyone was cool with this. Not everybody uses the same calender. For Muslims, the calender started at the Hijra, for Jews, it started from creation, and for Buddhists it started at the birth of Buddha.
>Should the start of the industrial revolution or end of WW2 have marked a new era that started over at year 1The cult of liberalism
>>18391935Mesoamerican civilizations already had the long count calendar which went back to like 3,000 bc so it's not like they created any of this.
