As Jeff says. If you have too many people, I'd suggest the best thing to do is split off. The alternatives are to starve your people (which is very bad for both local morale and general relations--it can give you a bad reputation if it happens often enough), or grab land. If you grab land, you anger some neighbors, and assuming your crops fail, end up starving your people anyway, since a bad harvest means a much greater loss which can't be compensated easily.
By contrast, after splitting off you invariably end up in a better situation than you were when you first started out, and you've got a group of powerful allies.
What's wrong with splitting off?
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