The Byzantines spread Christianity mostly by sending out missionaries for the Greek Orthodox Church.
The colonies had been practicing limited forms of self-government since the early ... persecution in England demanded the freedom to worship according to their faiths. ... The colonies along the eastern coast of North America were formed under ... belief that colonies existed in order to increase the mother country's wealth
The historians most likely belong to the Classical School of thought.
The other name would be Traditional.
One weakness of traditional view in looking a certain historical events is that most of it would be written by the 'winner' in that event.
Which means that a lot of things contained in the view might be extremely biased and not represent the truth..
It was a large project that employed many people at several sites across the United States.