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en-wikipedia-org-7981		History of Sweden - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	8757	872	69	During the 17th century, after winning wars against Denmark-Norway, Russia, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden emerged as a great power by taking direct control of the Baltic region. During the 17th century, after winning wars against Denmark, Russia, and Poland, Sweden (with scarcely more than 1 million inhabitants) emerged as a great power by taking direct control of the Baltic region, which was Europe's main source of grain, iron, copper, timber, tar, hemp, and furs. They spent much of the 1950s and 1960s building Folkhemmet (The People's Home), the Swedish welfare state.[26] Sweden's industry had not been damaged by the war and it was in a position to help re-build Northern Europe in the decades following 1945. ^ Michael Roberts, The Early Vasas: A History of Sweden 1523–1611 (1968); Jan Glete, War and the State in Early Modern Europe: Spain, the Dutch Republic, and Sweden as Fiscal-Military States, 1500–1660 (2002) online edition	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7981.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7981.txt