Over the next few thousand years, and independent of developments in the Near East, similar transformations happened elsewhere: in China the population domesticated rice, soybeans and different types of pigs; and in India millet, mung beans, another variety of rice and humped zebu cattle.[12] Settled agriculture spread slowly but surely across Eurasia, and by 2000 BCE farming supported large cities from the Mediterranean all the way to the Far East.[13]
