I really do wonder why they were though. I’ve ruled out race alone but don’t deny people of different races may have different genetic and mental make up from the way they evolved separately from other races for thousands of years. especially back in those days when the world wasnt so connected.
Maybe it was being closer to the cradle of civilization, the ruins of the Holy Roman Empire, the proximity to the Middle East and the culture the Jewish and Christian faith promoted. They just had access to the work of giants to build from and the native Americans didn’t. But it still begs to ask why the native Americans never formed great societies and were so far behind the Europeans and the great society that dwarf any native American societies. Like the Roman Empire, Egypt etc. Was it the wonderful resource rich lands they came from with a temperate or tropical environment?