<span>The 17th century saw Sweden as an European "Great Power" and one of the major military and political combatants on the continent during the Thirty Years' War. By mid-century, the kingdom included part of Norway, all of Finland and stretched into Russia. Sweden's control of portions of modern Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Germany made the Baltic Sea essentially a Swedish lake.</span>
These are concurrent powers
Are you Australian? In that case it would rather ironically be the Aboriginals and their children. If not, (and I'm not 100 percent sure about this one) but this was during the time period of the African American rights Reform period in the United States.
They provided British factories with raw materials