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When did Montejo face Maya resistance?

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He proceeded to Mexico, subdued (1530) Tabasco, and then conducted (1531-35) a campaign from the west. At first partially successful, he encountered increasingly fierce Maya resistance, and his men, exhausted and finding no booty, deserted.

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