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For much of the seventeenth century, the Baltic world had a Swedish shape. Sweden was not a large country in population or wealth, but it had become one of Europe’s most formidable military monarchies. Its rise had been spectacular. From the age of Gustavus Adolphus (as seen in Thirty Years' War ) through the later struggles with Denmark, Poland-Lithuania, Brandenburg, and Russia, Sweden had built…