The Hebrews reckoned two evenings of each day, as appears from Ex. 16:12: 30:8; 12:6 (marg.); Lev. 23:5 (marg. R.V., between the two evenings). The first evening was that period when the sun was verging towards setting, and the second evening the moment of actual sunset.
BCE/CE usually refers to the Common Era (the years are the same as AD/BC). That is, BC is usually understood to mean Before the Common Era and CE to mean Common Era, though it is possible to reinterpret the abbreviations as Christian Era..
An intriguing commonalty also exists which justifies the use of the term early modern in a global perspective: most civilizations across the globe during the period whether consciously or unconsciously looked to their respective pasts as a golden age, and therefore embraced tradition as the cornerstone of society.