Who ruled
- Second Göktürk Khaganate Kapgan Khan 691–716 · Inel Khan 699–716
And beyond the steppe
- China Tang Xuanzong 712–756
- Iran Umayyad al-Walid I 705–715 · Sulayman 715–717
- Korea Silla Seongdeok 702–737
- Byzantium Anastasios II 713–715 · Theodosios III 715–717
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)
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The Ten Surnames of the west and more than ten thousand tents go over to the Tang; in the autumn Kapgan beats the Nine Surnames north of the desert and their leader Abusi defects too
Kapgan Khan · On Oq · Toquz Oghuz · Second Göktürk Khaganate · Tiele
Persia
Arabia and the caliphate
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Qutayba ibn Muslim is killed by his own troops in Ferghana; the Sogdian cities begin to look north for help
Qutayba ibn Muslim · The Umayyad Caliphate · Sogdiana · Türgesh
