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Long before the arrival of the Spanish, the people of Teotihuacan rose up against the ruling class in part to end sacrifices. The temple has clear signs of being ransacked, with statues destroyed by axes, and no remains of sacrifice victims found from after this time.
After this, they seem to have set up a proto-communist society, particularly focusing on building large, luxurious apartments for all resident families. “Neighborhoods” of these apartments would elect representatives to the city council.
They also built what’s functionally a spite building to hide the temple. The temple originally would’ve been at the end of the main central boulevard, but a new building was put up in front of it to block the sight line because who wants to look at that ugly church where they used to kill people.
Read The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber