I thought the beast was the Roman Empire - - - is this the "one world government" you speak of? It was pretty much the government of the known world at the time...
Not exactly correct. The Ancient Roman empire was
not the center of the known world. That's a common "euro-centric" form of historical "revisionism", for which you'd likely receive a "
Failing" grade on any college level paper that stated this as a historic fact.
Ancient Rome never conquered
Parthia, the Arsacid dynasty (better known as Persia). They never conquered the
Tamil States of the Pandyan, Chola or Chira dynasties of the Indian Subcontinent. Nor did they conquer the lands of Serica and Sinae, which comprised the Han dynasty and which is known as
China today
. They also failed to conquer the Kingdom of Kush, (The African/Post Eqyptian empire of Nubia). That pretty much constitutes a very
large slice of the civilized world that completely escaped Roman domination.
As for the rest of the
known world, the Romans never conquered S
candinavia (The Baltics),
Northern Briton (The Celts) where emperor Hadrian eventually had to build a wall across Briton to protect Roman territory, or
Hibernia (The Roman name for Ireland), as well as the Central Asian lands and tribes of
Koth. None of these "iron age" civilizations of the ancient world were
ever conquered by the Romans.
The fact the Ancient Romans had
knowledge of these contemporary kingdoms, dynasties, empires and lands is
well documented by the Romans themselves, (who were
excellent record keepers). Rome had trade with all of these people. In fact, after Eqypt was conquered, the Romans were introduced to Chinese silk which was highly prized by the Romans. While Roman glass products made their way to ancient China. The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius sent the first official envoy to China in 166 A.D.
So you may want to
revisit the assumption Ancient Rome constituted a
one world government, as well as the unfounded conjecture and popular Futurist mythology about the "Resurrected Roman Empire" of End Time Bible prophecy representing a
one world government as well
.