wealth and engineering projects and it's still remarkable for anyone in the united states who goes to pereiro or bolivia or south america or central america and mexico can to see how they were and this is of the spanish empire prosperity and the historical myths about the decline of the spanish because the did declined which the others were rising faster. the achievement in terms of the transformation on these great cities and the human purposes, the dynamic economy of the demographic is really extraordinary worst which is unparalleled in anywhere that is now the united states. when i look at what the mission would do a california and the very late 18th-century are really animated by the standard. they had a standard of achievement which was represented by the great rich economies in the rest of the spanish empire. to create something like that in california as quickly as possible. when you ask why do they found so many mentions and sacrifice so much time and effort and money and power on this remote place, why so much, why do they agreed to so many cattle and work for juicing everything from