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the history of what is today the philippines started with the arrival of its first humans it is believed they used rafts or boats around 60 000 years ago with groups of diverse people settling in the archipelago some of these groups started to develop and expand into bigger settlements and in the next thousands of years they evolved into what some scholars believe to be considered early states austronesians and afterwards speakers of the malayo-polynesian languages began to arrive in successive waves beginning about 4000 bc according to the existing evidence a jade culture existed on these lands starting with the neolithic era by 1000 bc it is believed that the inhabitants of the archipelago had developed into four distinct kinds of people tribal groups warrior societies the petsy plutocracy and the harbor civilizations also important to note is the fact that the metallurgy reached the archipelago due to trade with india around 300 to 700 a.d the seafaring people of the islands began