He was rapidly adapting to his new identity.
This new identity should have been called teacher, but in this era it was called priest. Though he found the title quite distasteful, he had no choice but to accept reality. After the fleeting Greek guilds had vanished and before the Enlightenment and Renaissance, the clergy were the group that possessed knowledge. To possess knowledge was to possess wealth; this was a universal phenomenon on this planet—in the West, such organizations were called churches, while in the East, they were called noble clans. This was knowledge Captain Miller had read in the Emperor's library. The so-called library was actually a tablet computer Dinah had given him. The data slate stored a vast amount of knowledge he had never encountered in the United States education system. These would be all the textbooks he needed for his future work. Sociology, a subject not considered science, was also included as supplementary reading for "Unified Truth."
As High Priest and the Emperor's envoy, he received an extremely enthusiastic welcome, though the enthusiasm was somewhat difficult for him to bear. After this tribe, which was half agricultural, half gathering, and half hunting, received the Emperor's gifts, it used part of those gifts to entertain its guests and show respect for the High Priest. The tribe invited Captain Miller across a shallow irrigation ditch and into a communal hut built from mud bricks, then presented its most precious food to him in ceramic jars.
But Captain Miller truly could not swallow the fatty meat reeking of mutton.
In this era, fat rich in grease was the finest food. The bread was baked from barley flour and acorn flour crudely ground with primitive stone mills; after drying for a while, it could easily chip a tooth if one was