ocr: Such movements of rural and urban populations must have conflicted with local interests. That they were carried out successfully demonstrates the prestige and power of the hierarchy in Teotihuacan. Traditional loyalties to the religion of Teotihuacan were doubtless invoked. Nevertheless, one wonders whether the power of the military would not have been increasingly involved. There is evidence both in Teotihuacan and beyond its borders that its soldiers became more and more important from the fifth century on. It may well be that at the peak of its power and influence Teotihuacan itself was bec ...
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