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 The calendar was so perfect that, when Europeans arrived and knew it, they realized that their Julian calendar was wrong and adjusted their calendar to ours, and called it Gregorian, since it was Pope Gregory XIII who ordered the reform to the Julian calendar in 1582.

''"The origin of the prehispanic computation has been traced from its Olmec roots. Remember that the word Olmec derives from two words: ollin: movement and mecatl: rope (mecate), in reference to rope measurement; thus the measure of movement or the movement measure. This means that the Olmecs were probably known as cosmic movement measurers and its expression in geometric shapes...". (Ma. Elena Romero M. 1988)'' Mexico possessed 75% of the planet's biodiversity. Our ancestors knew the medicinal uses of food, utilities, surprisingly almost all plants, minerals and animals; which inter alia allowed them to develop one of the perfect and ancient medicines of the world, which has survived to date. The Codex de la Cruz-Badiano (1552), the amazing cranial trepanning found in burials, the massagers, those using plants (yerberos) and healers, is testimony of the permanence of this millenary wisdom that has resisted disappearing. It can be stated that global Pharmacology foundations were built on contributions from three civilizations: China, India and Anahuac. To appreciate the complex and sophisticated knowledge ancient Mexicans had ____________________