1Nephi 13:1-3

Nephi sees in vision: the church of the devil set up among the Gentiles; the discovery and colonizing of America; the loss of many plain and precious parts of the Bible; the resultant state of gentile apostasy; the restoration of the gospel, the coming forth of Latter-day scripture, and the building up of Zion. About 600–592 B.C.

1  AND it came to pass that the angel spake unto me, saying: Look! And I looked and beheld many nations and kingdoms.

2  And the angel said unto me: What beholdest thou? And I said: I behold many ^anations and kingdoms.

3  And he said unto me: These are the nations and kingdoms of the Gentiles.
            -the Roman empire spread Christianity to Europe where it flowered during the Rennaissance and cascaded into the Reformation.  Nearly every Eropean country was deeply influenced by one or more protestant denominations as Christianity finally shook off the heavy hand of Catholicism.  The gentile nations spread across the earth with the colonization of the 14^th, 15^th and 16^th centuries.  Nations rose and fall within decades and centuries.  Even the United States, whose people inherited the promises of the promised land  is comparably an infant when compared with the great nations of the old world.  America’s rise and denoument span but a few hundred years.