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| - The monsoons are a series of winds that bring in moist clouds that drench the areas of India and Southeast Asia in rain during the Summer. These weather patterns are very sensitive and vulnerable to changes in the environment. In the summer of the year 843 (90 AD) the monsoons did not arrive in Southeast Asia and the people of Nan as well as Srivijaya fell into famine. At the same time the deserts of Northern Sinica began to send great sandstorms farther outside the desert than they had ever reached before, which also chocked many of the river valleys of Sinica. The death that ensued was massive and amplified even more so by the fact that it came at the end of a time of long and sustained peace between the powers of East Asia. The only areas that were rather uneffected by these developments were the Indonesian islands of Srivijaya, which many of the wealthier members of their society fled to after leaving the continent, as well as the Easternmost areas of the Second Han Dynasty and the Japanese Colonies. The Srivijaya were, for the most part, to far for people from Sinica to reach them. The dying people of what was Song and Tang moved East. The death that surrounded the people of Sinica was so great that it became the topic of the first novel story of a young boy losing his parents to a long move to the the city of Shanghai to find food and a future. Any money that could be extracted from the traveling people was, the inability of them to leave after they ran out of money led many to settle around the richest person who could orchestrate the movement of food. These new cities were started on routes moving to the East grew into trading centers once the rains returned and the Western areas were suitable for repopulation. These examples were blown away practically by the events in Mongolia where the Japanese enslaved many of the immigrating people into farm and industrial labor, and almost all of them consented to the enslavement. The move to retake the Mongolian parts of North Asia by the Japanese was met without resistance by the leadership of Mongolia who would greet any occupier who could offer them food. The treatment of the Japanese was harsh but they brought them access to rice and to grazing land for their cattle. The Japanese and the Sinicans had a flood of new recruits to their military which was one of the few respectable remaining forms of employment not already entangled in the control of trade guilds protecting careers like paper making for themselves and their families. The Srivijaya had alm ost no defenses on their borders with the retreat of the soldiers back to the islands. Srivijaya was however of a firm diplomatic ground with the other Empires. The next movement in the Asian Continent in response to the monsoons was in the country that was most effected by monsoon cycle, India. The Indians began a campaign of migration in search of food and money. What reserves the successful Maurya Empire had went to these ships that began to explore the Indian Ocean and to control it so that they can gain food from more fertile areas. The first move was made by a wealthy family from around the Andhra Coast. They were sent by the Samraat (Emperor) Brihadrata II to the East Coast of Africa where they encountered the Kingdom of Ethiopia which became a partner in the trade of grain. Furthermore, the family sent to Africa, named the Satavahana, established their own Kingdom in the uninhabited island of Madagascar and a smaller area on the Southeast coast, under their families name. The second branch of the Indian exploration for food went to the islands of the Srivijaya Empire. Many immigrated there and left their pasts in the Mauryan Empire behind. Later, further families were sent in order to give India control over these fertile regions and to return the immigrants to the rule of the offended Emperor. Many of these immigrating families were part of the Sunga family which had tried to establish their own rule, because they were brahmins and in the Hindu religion believed themselves destined to reign over others. They were defeated by the son of Samraat Brihadrata the first, named Dakshesh, and were regarded as part of the servant caste that had impersonated a higher caste.
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