&object0=js|800|600|80|80|0|0|100|0|0|0|0|background_style9.jpg|1|0|0|0& &autoPlayOn=0& &navobjectsVisible=1& &numberOfSlides=3& &numberOfObjects1=7& &object1_1=js|517|344|124.8|124.8|-1|46|30|0|0|1|0|parthenon.jpg|2|0|0|0& &object1_2=r|225|31|100|100|409|398|100|0|11|1|1& &object1_3=r|280|50|100|100|356|1|100|0|9|0|1& &object1_4=t|279|100|100|100|359|5|100|0|0|center|1|13|1|0|0|16|0|0|0|2|Introducing the Cultural Matrixes of GREECE and ROME& &object1_5=t|367|100|100|100|0|5|100|1|10|left|1|5|1|0|8|16|0|0|0|1|THE GRECO-ROMAN CULTURAL MATRIX (The "GRCM")& &object1_6=b|0|0|100|100|416|407|3|4|1|3|1|0|18|OVERVIEW OF THE GRCM|-8|1|0|4|GRCM_Cultural_Matrix_Overview.pdf& &object1_7=t|625|100|100|100|11|55|100|0|10|left|1|13|3|0|1|16|0|0|0|2|THE INCOMPLETE PERSIAN CONQUEST at the end of the Ancient Mediterranean Cultural Matrix split the Mediterranean tradition into a Persian branch and a Greek branch. The Greek branch became the GRECO-ROMAN CULTURAL MATRIX (The "GRCM"). 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In raising the issue of perfection, they attempted to achieve TOLERANCE by discovering "universal" truths. But their efforts tended to degenerate into ETHNOCENTRISM because they proved incapable of considering all the points-of-view available to them. The value-system integrated by INQUIRY INTO PERFECTION included optimism, freedom, arete, hubris, balance, justice, beauty, and humanism. In Roman society, the INTEGRATING VALUE of ______ addressed concerns about diversity and integrated a value-system that promoted the perspective of RELATIVISM. In Roman-style Hellenism, the value of individual character grew in importance, spurred by the Roman approach to issues of diversity, and supported by Roman cosmopolitanism. The triumph of Christianity at the end of the Roman era, with its belief in one way for all people, substituted a perspective of ETHNOCENTRISM for the older Roman perspective of RELATIVISM. 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