A written year
Year 1 — already written.
That year was
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Days ago (about)
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Years ago
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Generations back
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Lifetimes back
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Full moons since (about)
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Zodiac cycles since
The world then
Augustus rules Rome, and the empire is at its confident height. Every human alive — roughly 200 million people, by most estimates — could fit inside one mid-sized modern country. Today there are over 8 billion of us.