Eli5 How was time marked BCE?

Question

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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Answer 1

BCE is a term for the Gregorian calendar created much later in 1582. Different civilizations had different calenders before that. They counted time forward like normal.

Some civilisations even had lunar calenders that are still followed to this day.