Daniel 7:2

"Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and behold the four winds of heaven brake forth upon the great sea."

"The four winds of heaven here ..." are cosmic forces of the greatest extent. Involved are the rise of populations and human systems and developments pertaining to all the people of the earth. The "great sea" here is not the Mediterranean sea, but the oceans of population upon earth. Just as we have in Revelation 13, where either the apostle John, or perhaps even Satan himself (depending upon the translation) "stood upon the seashore" to behold the great scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns that came up out of the sea, the sea of earth's peoples, just as in the case here. The kinship between Revelation and Daniel is evident in many such particulars.