Resources, their army, and money, were all dwindling after constant fighting.
Well it depends do you mean how they are warned now or back then ?
Now: NHC issues a hurricane warning 36 hours in advance of tropical storm-force winds to give you time to complete your preparations
Back then: not sure on what the steps were but here is information about it—hurricane warning service was set up in the early 1870s from Cuba with the work of Father Benito Vines, who served as director of the Meteorological Observatory of the Royal College of Belén. He established a network of observation sites and developed the first method to forecast tropical cyclone movement,
Captured islands served as stepping stones for movement toward Japan
The best answer is B) It attempted to stop some of the worst abuses of the Catholic Church.
Although the Catholic Church did denounce Protestant movements, such as the Calvinists, as non-Christian, they also tried to implement many reforms in order to limit corruption and other factors that had created a divide between the church and the people. This mainly took place at the Council of Trent.
