Eli5 How was time marked BCE?

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Since those that lived BCE didn’t know that the years were descending, how did they mark time during that time period?

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In addition to these answers, way back when, it didn’t really matter to the common folk what year it was. You got up, worked, ate dinner and went to bed. The season mattered, but there was no reason for the average person to know exactly when such and such an event happened in the past.

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