they were going for educational opportunities for their children
<span>The event in question is that 1881 International Cotton Exposition. Given that cotton at that time was the South's biggest cash crop, this event held significant value in gaining exposure for producers in the American South and connecting them with possible global partners and purchasers. The event lasted 2.5 months and attracted somewhere less than 200,000 attendees.</span>
<span>The earliest operas were performed private theaters at the courts of the nobility and royalty homes using only the piano as accompaniment secret showings, because opera was ruled illegal by louis xiv churches, monasteries, and convents</span>
1. The invasion of barbarian tribes
2. Extreme reliance on slaves
3. Rise of eastern empire
4. Spending too much on military
5. Government Corruption
are just few of the examples
