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The native americans and several other cultures did not experience the same technological advancements as europe. What has caused this diffrence? edit: formatting

You might be interested in reading these select threads from the same section linked by /u/hatari_bwana:

• What differences caused the Mesoamerican societies to be much more successful than Eastern North American societies?
• /u/Reedstilt delivers a huge amount of information on Pre-Columbian North America which may help illuminate the picture in which those societies lived.
• Why didn't native americans develop bronze, iron or steel?
• Lots of good information here about the use of metal in the Pre-Columbian Americas which you might find relevant (particularly due to metal weapons' utility in warfare).
• If there is iron in the Americas, why did mesoamerican peoples never develop iron working?
• The users in this thread delve into the difficulties of finding and smelting iron in comparison to finding abundant native copper and putting the relatively pure metal to good use.
• Is there any reason why the Native American civilization never was able to work metal?
• Here /u/Reedstilt this time draws explicit comparisons between the metalworking of Native American societies in the Eastern Woodlands and European metal working that you may find illuminating.