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 3. THE ANÁHUAC CIVILIZATION.

What today comprises the territory of Mexico was the birthplace of one of the world’s six oldest civilizations with independent origin which achieved the highest human development for its population in the history of mankind. Our Old Grandparents called themselves Anahuacas, because the continent was called in the Nahuatl language (which was the lingua franca), "Cem Anahuac". This civilization has had a single philosophical-cultural matrix through various cultures that expressed it at different times and locations, linked by a common thread in its three major periods.

The formative stage where all knowledge was developed, beginning with agriculture and the hybridization of corn, which provided the basis of sustenance for a nation throughout its existence. Each of these six mother cultures had a crop as a food base; some had wheat, others potatoes, rice or millet; but our ancestors hybridized corn, which was, originally, a type of grass that through a process that we now call "biogenetic engineering", was developed into this wonderful food that today nourishes many peoples in the five continents.

This effort was only made possible through researcher and scientific work that was passed from one generation to another, throughout thousands of years, until this wonderful food was developed.

Indeed, our ancestors walked by themselves, the long way, which led them from being nomads, wild hunters, and gatherers, until they slowly started to develop knowledge about the world, life and nature, which would allow them to not only to ensure their existence and physical survival, but perhaps, and most importantly, to reach the transcendence of their existence, both, as individuals, and as a people.

The history of these 7,500 years of Cultural Development of our peoples, has been called “PRE-HISPANIC” epoch by scholars. It is important to underline the colonial and western vision of history, as it is seen through the eyes of the victors. Why call what is uniquely ours, our Old Grandfathers and their