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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Environment · Central Mongolia turns drier, by the lake record, and stays so to 1300; the droughts of the Medieval Climate Anomaly (700–1300)
