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Also since there was talk about the American Civilizations if you're interested in their science & technology (or the history of science & technology in general) more I suggest you find and read a book by James. E. McClellan called "Science and Technology in World History: an introduction". He covers a timespan from early men and paleolithic/neolithic cultures to the present day and while the main focus is on European developments, he also goes around the world to examine science & technology in the Islamic World, China, India, The Americas. It is not just a neutral overview of anything like that, his main point throughout the book is that technology as a field largely developed independently throughout history separate from science and that when these two interacted it usually was the other way around that technology inspired science, like how alchemy had roots in technological practices of metallurgy. Basically, he is arguing against a traditional view that technology was "applied science". And that applied science the way we know it only properly emerged during the 1800's.

It is not a perfect history book (but a good and educative read anyway) and from the past decade (the version I read 2006 if I recall correctly), he -for instance- ignores Nikola Tesla out of the picture completely when discussing the electrification of the world which I hate and goes on to boldly claim that Ancient Egypt had zero theoretical philosophy or theoretical thinking in general, that it was all focused on the practical & useful of Mathematics, Metallurgy/Alchemy, Astronomy/Astrology, Medicine etc. (The main sciences consistently supported & patronaged by rulers across different Empires of the world) and that the tradition of theoretical/abstract science in the form of Philosophy (and its sub-fields) only emerged with independent Greek thinkers without state patronage...(and from there was inherited by the Romans and by medieval Europe from the 10th/11th century onwards in-unison with the fast rise of the Universitas.

(When in Truth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_philosophy

Anyway, If any of you are in university right now you can access it online through various online academic depositories through your university account/ID. (For example Ebook central: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/auth/lib/hec-ebooks/login.action)

If not you'll have to get a physical copy from a library or smth.