The silk roads was a vast trade network connecting North Africa via land and it was a vast trade network connecting Eurasia and sea routes. Advances in technology and increased political stablitly caused an increase in trade. The silk roads allowed luxury goods like silk, porcelian, and silver to travel from one end of the silk road to the other.
<span>Business owners made profits and benefited from new industrial technologies, while laborers were paid little and rarely had access to new products resulting from industrial advances.</span>