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Answer: I would say the answer is D) the study of how people use resources
I think the difference is caused by a person or group actually going through with genocide versus an attempt at it, but that's just my best guess?
A sepoy was the name given to an Indian infantryman employed hired by the British East India Company.
The two possible outcomes are:
1. The boomtown losses it's economic power, and people migrate away from it to other places that they consider better for living, and thus leaving it as a ghost town.
2. After the main income of the boomtown is lost, people put their efforts into other things that can make them survive and keep the town alive, maybe a timber industry, fishing, agriculture, tourism.