Who ruled
- Second Göktürk Khaganate Kapgan Khan 691–716 · Inel Khan 699–716
And beyond the steppe
- China Tang Wu Zetian 690–705 · Zhongzong 705–710
- Iran Umayyad Abd al-Malik 685–705 · al-Walid I 705–715
- Korea Silla Seongdeok 702–737
- Byzantium Tiberios III 698–705 · Heraclian Justinian II 705–711
Eastern steppe
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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)
China
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Kapgan beats the Tang at Mingsha in Lingzhou, more than six thousand Chinese dead, and carries off the Longyou herds; the Tang answer with the three Shouxiang cities beyond the River
Kapgan Khan · Kül Tegin · Tang
