Hi, I’m fairly new here but been lurking for a while. This is my first post so please be gentle :P

I’ve always wondered why North American native Americans developed differently to European, like the Phoenicians, or Southern American, like the Mayans or Incan cultures. Mainly why did they become primarily nomadic tribes rather than a settled group of communities? I thought that the main reason Bronze Age peoples developed into settled communities like villages, towns and eventually cities was the availability of food that came mainly from farming and crop development. Was this due to a lack of tools to farm fields or did the tribes not form permanent settlements or grow crops for religious or cultural reasons attached to hunting? I’ve never done American history before the age of exploration and only mainly on the two World wars so forgive me if there’s obvious reasons here that I don’t know.