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Because of the birth of Christ that happened just somewhere in the middle of recorded history. We count the assumed year of that birth as the year 0 (zero) and we count up for all years after that. That is why today we still use the notation 2014 AD, AD meaning Anno Domini in Latin and 'since the birth of our Lord' in English.
That means that we count all the years before the birth of Christ in the other direction. A person living before the year 0 would for instance have been born 100 years before Christ (that is why pre-Christian years always have the addition BC, short for before Christ) and after having lived for 70 years, have died 30 years BC. The same person having been born 200 years later would have been born 100 years after Christ and died 170 years after Christ.
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