>No. Indians and Chinese were almost on par with Europeans technologically-wise unlike Amerindians who never got past the Neolithic in the South and the Mesolithic in the North
In the andes and in mesoamerica they were already at the bronze age.
It has been found that the huastec region controled by the aztec empire was an important place for bronze tools prdouction.
The tarascan empire and the western mesoamerica also commerced the bronze to the aztecs, since it was the most important place for metalurgy.
Bernal Diaz del castillo also commented about a bronze Axe in the tlatelolco market (one of the biggest markets in the world at the time).
https://books.openedition.org/cemca/4040

> Le Mesoamerican didnt have metal weapons
This when most of the mesoamerican soldiers had metal axes in their arsenal called "Tepoztli" which could be of copper or bronze and when we have found bronze artifacts in Toluca and Hidalgo, all of them in the aztec empire, and we have found an aztec province which produced bronze called "El platanito" in the huastec tributary region.
Bernal Diaz del castillo also commented that he found bronze axes in the tlatelolco market in Tenochtitlan.
https://books.openedition.org/cemca/4040
https://www.academia.edu/83349988/In_Tepoztli_in_Quauhximalli_un_estudio_de_las_hachas_y_otros_instrumentos_met%C3%A1licos_en_el_C%C3%B3dice_Mendoza_tesis_Maestr%C3%ADa_en_Historia_y_Etnohistoria_