Who ruled
- Second Göktürk Khaganate Kapgan Khan 691–716 · Inel Khan 699–716
And beyond the steppe
- China Tang Ruizong 710–712 · Xuanzong 712–756
- Iran Umayyad al-Walid I 705–715
- Korea Silla Seongdeok 702–737
- Byzantium Philippikos 711–713
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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The Göktürk army, with the Ten Arrows behind it, crosses the Syr Darya and reaches the Iron Gate south of Samarkand; the Sogdians submit to Inel Khan (711–712)
Tonyukuk · Inel Khan · Second Göktürk Khaganate · Sogdians · Kapgan Khan
Persia
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Qutayba ibn Muslim takes Samarkand by a ruse; the treaty of surrender, with its tribute in dirhams, slaves and silk, survives
The capture of Samarkand, 712 · Samarkand · Qutayba ibn Muslim · Sogdians
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Qutayba ibn Muslim takes Sogdiana for the caliphate: Paikent, Bukhara, Samarkand, Khwarezm (705–715)
Qutayba ibn Muslim · Sogdiana · Samarkand · Bukhara · Paikent · Sogdians
