To begin with, the Silk Road was not as used and eminent as it was later on in ancient times, especially not during 200 B.C.E., as new civilizations had only began to proliferate in various areas. At first, only several major civilizations were around which utilized the Silk Road for trade and travel, consisting of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Carthage/Phoenicia, Persia, and China. The slow amount of trade showed that as time goes on things greatly are affected. The things that were traded at first greatly differed as well to those traded later on, as new technologies and materials were experimented and used for different aspects of everyday life. The evolution of trade through the Silk Road also was affected by technologies. During 200 B.C.E there were little technologies which helped make trading at faster speeds much more