^According to historian Antonio Jimenez Estrella, of Department of Modern History and Latin at the University of Granada, Spain,Template:Incomplete short citationfrom the perspective of institutional history, of power and of power elites, the Captaincy General was, at least during the Mendoza period (16th century), a body territorial, political, governmental and, to some extent, fiscal, endowed with powers that went far beyond military power that will be presupposed in principle.