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Overpowering of the Americas by Christopher Columbus, who established a bond between the old and new world which resulted in interactions between American, European, and African cultures. However, this greatly hurt the natives. In the Western Hemisphere, sugar, wheat, rice, okra, and coffee led to deforestation and soil depletion from growing same crops repeatedly, horses, pigs, rats led to overgrazing and soil erosion and the spread of disease, smallpox, measles, plague, influenza led to death of native populations. Although in the Eastern Hemisphere, potatoes, maize, tobacco, cacao, sugar led to better nutrition, increased population and greater wealth, turkey and llamas led to diverse diet and new textile. They also found a treatment for Maleria.
True The history of the Philippines is believed to have begun with the arrival of the first humans using rafts or boats at least 709,000 years ago as suggested by the discovery of Pleistocene stone tools and butchered animal remains associated with hominin activity.