How did Colonizers become more “advanced” than the countries they colonized?

Question

In the colonization of NA, how was it that the Europeans already had muskets while the Native Americans were still using traditional weapons? I doubt it’s because theres a lack of resources?

In: 4

Answer 1

Europeans got exposed to metallurgy from the middle east, were introduced to gun powder from China and learned large scale military tactics using both by practicing on their neighbors. Native Americans had never faced those 3 things. Europeans had 1000 years experience with them.