moving southwest towards mehiko
Answer:
Usually famine causes angst between the weakened civilation so the owners of said territories usually hunt for more fertile land so they can sustain their growing population without having being thrown out of power and slain, its often better to satisfy the people who you govern rather than to exterminate to govern the population steadily.
and to own more land is more money and more power for such rulers, if they own more land they can tax more people, and if they own fertile land they can grow crops to sustain themselves, and the people they govern, satisfying the ruler AND the people.
Answer:
The most intelligible choice to make (in my opinion) would be to deny my friends offer. Although I would love to go out with my friends I believe that the punishment I would recive from my parents would be terrible. I would explain the situation to my friend and ask to possibly go out another time when my parents would allow it. Trust is very easy to lose and extremely difficult to earn back and I would be very scared to disappoint my parents.
This is just my opinion tho! Hope this helps! :D