Who ruled
- Second Göktürk Khaganate Tengri Khan 734–741
- Türgesh Khaganate Sulu Khan 717–738
And beyond the steppe
- China Tang Xuanzong 712–756
- Iran Umayyad Hisham 724–743
- Korea Silla Seongdeok 702–737
- Byzantium Isaurian Leo III 717–741
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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Culture · The Bilge Khan inscription is erected
Bilge Khan inscription · Bilge Khan
Also dated 732 (one modern chronology): The inscription itself dates the funeral to the fifth month of the Pig year, 735 by Thomsen's equation, and most scholarship gives 735.
