And beyond the steppe
- China Tang Xianzong 805–820
- Iran Abbasid al-Ma'mun 813–833
- Korea Silla Later Silla 780–930
- Byzantium Leo V 813–820
Eastern steppe
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Culture · The trilingual Karabalghasun inscription is composed, recording the khan's conversion to Manichaeism
Manichaeism · Uyghur Khaganate
First quarter of the ninth century; the khan who commissioned it is disputed
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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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Environment · Persistent drought in the Orkhon country through the last Uyghur decades, by the tree rings (783–850)
Climate and the steppe empires · Uyghur Khaganate
From the tree-ring record of the Uyghur period