The Indiam Empire was founded during the Great Panic. During this time the Roman Empire and the Sinican Empire, both of which border India but which at that time had been cut off from Indian trade, had sent a lot of money and weapons to subversive indian groups to try to get them to open up trade in India by causing a government overthrow. This became known as the Indian Civil War and during this time the Roman supported northwest, the Sinican supported Northeast, and the independent Buddhist south would all rise up at the same time for the same purpose, to provide religious freedom and free trade for Indians. At the time the Indians did not know that the Great Panic had happened and believed that trade was as booming as it was just before the Great Panic.