Chapter Thirty-Five/Executing Babylon the Great

 By the 15th century, however, some countries were building brand-new empires. While some of these new imperial powers were found in the territory of former colonies of Rome, their empires were not mere continuations of the Roman Empire. Portugal, France, and Holland all became seats of far-flung domains. But the most successful was Britain, which came to preside over a huge empire on which the sun never set.' This empire spread at different times over much of North America, Africa, India, and Southwest Asia, as well as the expanse of the South Pacific. 

By the 19th century, some of the colonies in North America had already broken away from Britain to form the independent United States of America. Politically, some conflict between the new nation and the former motherland continued. Nevertheless, the first world war forced both countries to recognize their common interests and cemented a special relationship between them. Thus, a kind of dual world power came to exist, made up of the United States of America, now the world's wealthiest nation, and Great Britain, seat of the world's largest empire. Here, then, is the seventh 'head,' or world power, that continues into the time of the end and the territories of which the modern-day witnesses of Jehovah first got established. Compared with the long reign of the sixth head, the seventh remains only "a short while, " until God's Kingdom destroys all national entities. 

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