As specialization increased, so did inequality. The earliest farming communities were reasonably egalitarian, even when they exceeded the ancient community maximum of 150 to 200 people. The Neolithic town of Çatalhüyük (in modern-day Turkey) flourished eight to nine thousand years ago, and it shows little variation in the size of domestic dwellings, even though its population may have reached several thousand. Eventually, however, we start finding wealthy minorities, and more and more of them.
