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 Seongdeok 702–737
- Byzantium Tiberios III 698–705
Eastern steppe
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An Lushan born, to a Sogdian officer of the Göktürk armies and a mother of the Ashide
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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)
