Scandinavia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed
A) Denmark expand so as to dominate the Baltic.
B) Sweden become a second-rate power after the Great Northern War.
C) Sweden and Denmark join forces to defeat and occupy Poland in 1660.
D) the economic dominance of Sweden over the rest of northern Europe.
E) the conquest of Sweden by Norway.
B
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