Who ruled
- Second Göktürk Khaganate Kapgan Khan 691–716 · Inel Khan 699–716
And beyond the steppe
- China Tang Wu Zetian 690–705
- Iran Umayyad Abd al-Malik 685–705
- Korea Silla Hyoso 692–702
- Byzantium Tiberios III 698–705
Eastern steppe
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Environment · Lake Telmen stands 4.8 metres above its present level, a humid phase before the drying that follows (600–700)
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Kapgan sets a shad of the left and a shad of the right over twenty thousand men each and his son Fuju as Lesser Khan over forty thousand of the Ten Surnames, with the title Khan Who Expands the West
