What is ante-bellum?

It is used to describe the pre-civil war era, and most historians say it goes back to around 1820 or so, but that is in dispute.

Ante = before bellum = the accusative case of the noun meaning the war So: before the war

I think it's after you pass tempo of the ocean king, and you have to go back you go this island, and then you have this bord thing on the side of and screen and you have to write P on it. Then you go...

Ante Meridian

War is the English equivalent of 'bellum'. It's a neuter gender noun. An older form in Latin is 'duellum', which is 'a contest between two' or 'a war'.