Shavadai

The Shavadai is the name given to a people that inhabitant a world SG-1 visited on one of their earliest missions. The Shavadai ("People of the Steppe") were brought to their world long ago, most likely by a Goa'uld, possibly Yu. They seem to be descended from Earth's Mongols and, according to Daniel Jackson, their society has changed very little since then.

Until very recently, the Shavadai treated their women as property, supposedly to protect them, though the laws are actually geared far more towards control and repression. Many among the Shavadai, such as Moughal, saw the error of the "old ways", but did little to change them. It took the influence of an outsider, Samantha Carter, to finally liberate the women of the Shavadai. (SG1: "Emancipation")