in the classic period mesoamerican city of teotihuacan, apartments were not only the standard means of housing the city's population of over 200,000 inhabitants, but show a remarkably even wealth distribution for the entire city, even by contemporary standards. furthermore, the apartments were inhabited by the general populace as a whole, in contrast to other pre-modern socieites, where apartments were limited to housing the lower class members of the society, as with the somewhat contemporary roman insulae.