• RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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      Okay, honest question: what did they call it then, if anything?

      Because it’s not like they planned on counting down to the future “messiah’s” birthday.

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          Damn, so Korea went back in time? Or what are they on now? Did they hit 40K yet? Do they count in dog years? Do they inflate their numbers so it sounds cooler? Have the halfed it, when they split the country in half? I demand answers Korea!

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        The Romans named their years after who was elected Consul that year. There were two Consuls, so you’d say “in the consulship of Jones and Smith”. 59BC was Julius Caesar and some other guy. The other guy was so unimportant that Romans joked by calling it the consulship of “Julius and Caesar”.

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            Some humour transcends lifetimes, we were carving dicks into walls before the first century.

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            "Three men, a greek, a roman and a celt each get an island.

            The greek writes a book about flora and fauna of his island.

            The roman, realising that the island does not need to be conquered, builds a house, a road to the shore and a statue to himself.

            The celt starts a fight."

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          In more official settings they would also use the year “ab Urbe condita”, meaning “since the City’s founding” (city being Rome).

          59BC should be around 694 aUc if my numbers are right.

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        Depends on where in the world, but most dating systems were reginal, that is what year of what monarch/pharaoh/emperor’s reign.

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      Same… took me a moment. Then I realized in 59 B.C. it was like year 700 to them at that time (not literally 700… just throwing a random number).