[Revelation 13:1]

Sorry to be brief but I been reading all day and I'm tired.

The first beast comes from the 'sea':

Revelation 13:1
And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore. Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names.

This would be Europe, which was ten kingdoms but the 'eleventh' being the 'Vatican' nestled among the 'seven hills' arose and smite three kingdoms:

Daniel 7:8
While I was contemplating the horns, behold, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots before it; and behold, this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth uttering great boasts.

And 'sea' actually stands for:

Revelation 17:15
And he said to me, "The waters which you saw where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

The first beast is the brutal rule of the Roman Catholics over bible-believing protestants in the dark ages, where millions of true believers were killed by emporers who enforced the corrupted 'catholic' (which means universal) union of Christianity and Greek paganism and carried over into post-Roman, divided Europe.

If water means out of the population, then what could this represent?:

Revelation 13:11
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon.

Columbus had to sail to the Americas, which were only sparsely inhabited by Native Americans. And the two horns of rule for this beast were 'lamb-like' or gentle. Meaning perhaps civil liberty and religeous liberty. But the second beast eventually 'spoke like a dragon', or non-gently, with it's rulership, most likely speaking of our future in the good ol' U.S. of A. since we still do as of yet enjoy these freedoms.