unilinear

adjective

uni·lin·e·ar ˌyü-ni-ˈli-nē-ər

: developing in or involving a series of stages usually from the primitive to the more advanced

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Revolutions and coups, shifts in alliances and alignments, and nearly continuous balance-of-power wars—among them the ruinous Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta—make for a story that’s often hard for modern readers to follow, as compared with the more unilinear tale of the rise of Rome. —