<em>The English colonies of New York and New Jersey were originally proprietary colonies.</em>
Later these colonies became royal colonies.
In the 17th century, proprietary colonies directly belonged to the British Crown. The King of England gave some of these states to friends and family to rule, always under the direction of the crown of England. That being the case, the King gave New Netherlands to the Duke of York, his younger brother, and renamed New York. New Jersey was a proprietary colony after 1664 and became a royal colony in 1702.
Expansionist justified the idea of Manifest Destiny because they said they were spreading democracy. They wanted everybody to be live like they do and to be democratic and what better way to do that than by spreading the word to the people living on the land that they already conquered.
Christianity was apparently introduced into the East Slavic state of Kievan Rus by Greek missionaries from Byzantium in the 9th century. An organized Christian community is known to have existed at Kiev as early as the first half of the 10th century, and in 957 St.
