Asia
- China (Qing Dynasty) - Kangxi, Emperor of China (1662–1722)
- India - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor (1658–1707)
- Japan -
- Monarch - Higashiyama, Emperor of Japan (1687–1709)
- Shogun (Tokugawa) - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Shogun of Japan (1680–1709)
- Ryūkyū Kingdom - Shō Tei, King of Ryūkyū (1669–1709)
- Korea (Joseon Dynasty) - Sukjong, King of Joseon (1674–1720)
- Sirmur - Mat Prakash, Raja of Sirmur (1684-1704)
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“I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the “hot bread and sweet cakes;” and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)