Who ruled
- Uyghur Khaganate Kutlug Bilge Kül Khan 744–747 · Bayanchur Khan 747–759
And beyond the steppe
- China Tang Xuanzong 712–756
- Iran Umayyad Marwan II 744–750
- Korea Silla Gyeongdeok 742–765
- Byzantium Isaurian Constantine V 741–775
Eastern steppe
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Culture · Moyanchuo builds the Uyghur capital on the Orkhon and a second city on the Selenga, Bay Balïq, with Sogdian and Chinese labour by the Shine-usu inscription
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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)
