Agriculture had started around 11,500 years ago as a change from hunting and gathering (Paleolithic age) to the Neolithic age. Over time agriculture had developed to other areas in the world other than Western Asia, such as Eastern Asia, North America and Europe. https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/development-of-agriculture/ states, “There was no single factor, or combination of factors, that led people to take up farming in different parts of the world… in East Asia, increased pressure on natural food resources may have forced people to find homegrown solutions.” In countries such as a Mexico agriculture had spread by specific plants like squash and corn, which later spread to North America. According to https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/development-of-agriculture/,
