Who ruled
- Second Göktürk Khaganate Kapgan Khan 691–716 · Inel Khan 699–716
And beyond the steppe
- China Tang Zhongzong 705–710
- Iran Umayyad al-Walid I 705–715
- Korea Silla Seongdeok 702–737
- Byzantium 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)
Western steppe
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Qutayba takes and sacks Paikent, the merchant town of the Bukhara oasis that had called on the Türgesh; a captive offers five thousand rolls of Chinese silk for his life
Paikent · Bukhara · Türgesh · Sogdians · Qutayba ibn Muslim
