1st century

Jesus's era roughly

The 1st century spans the years 1 to 100 CE (or AD).

It marks the beginning of the Common Era, encompassing the life of Jesus Christ, the early Roman Empire under Augustus and his successors, and the emergence of Christianity.

When someone refers to 1st-century texts or 1st-century Rome, they mean this period of classical antiquity.

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