I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.
I saw the ram pushing westward. Persia conquered, westward, Babylon, Mesopotamia, Syria, Asia Minor.
Northward - Colchis, Armenia, Iberia, and the dwellers on the Caspian sea.
Southward - Judea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya; also India, under Darius. He does not say eastward, for the Persians themselves came from the east (Isaiah 46:11, "a ravenous bird from the east").
But he did according to his will - (Daniel 11:3; Daniel 11:16: cf. Daniel 5:19).