Ep 10: Tabasco Part 8: A Game of Reeds

The Histories of Mexico

What were Francisco de Montejo el Adelantado de Yucatan’s last few years in Tabasco like? Who was the Bishop Pedraza? How did Tabasco fair during the early Colonial Period? What is the Spanish Genet? Why was the Lady Catalina de Montejos wedding important for more than the obvious reasons? Who was the Lempira and the Lencas? How did El Mozo Montejo handle Tabasco as its substitute governor? And what on earth is A Game of Reeds? All these questions and more as we witness the struggles of el Adelantado in the Mayan Jungles, and say goodbye to the Montejo’s in Tabasco in our next chapter on the history of the Emerald of the Southwest!