The men helped build temples and pyramids for “community service”. They were told to do specific things like make farmland, hunt, and build houses and other buildings. The men who were concerned had to do “community service”.
They had to work when called on or they would be sacrificed. The men had to work a number of hours or days. The work some men did was dangerous and some of them died working. The work some did was building homes, building temples, building pyramids,