Concentration of property in few and untried hands, rich convents, taxes, offices by purchase, tithe... centralized government, lack of laws adapted to circumstances, inequality of races, jealousies and hatred of one province for another, isolation, the horrors of the Conquest, decimation of Indians, ferocious intolerance buried the colonies in an immense tomb sprinkled with a few drops of Holy Water.
"Familias de la sangre I" , shows 19 prominent families in the XVIII century; the lines represent marriage ties, and "Familias de la sangre II", shows the 15 families that were linked by at least one marriage. Four of the prominent families did not marry their offspring into the close group of 15. As can be seen, the Galvez Corral family had a marriage ocurring among blood relatives. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) gives a visual display that helps to picture the connections among these Spanish families. Various measures of centrality (Freeman, L. 1977, 1979) are proposed to find the families who were important, synonymous of prestige, for the period.
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