No phonetic alphabet then no history

Historians unable to record the actual orations of the time. So Egypt is a blind spot. 

The phonetic alphabet and bronze age collapse

The Phoenician alphabet is an alphabet of abjad[3] type, consisting of 22 consonant letters only, leaving vowel sounds implicit, although certain late varieties use matres lectionis for some vowels.
Its immediate predecessor, the Proto-Canaanite alphabet or early "West Semitic alphabet",[4] used in the final stages of the Late Bronze Age in the Syro-Hittite kingdoms, is the oldest fully matured alphabet, ultimately derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs.[5]
In the Early Iron Age, the Phoenician alphabet is used to write Northwest Semitic languages, more specifically earlyPhoenician, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Hebrew and Old Aramaic.
Its use in Phoenicia (coastal Levant) led to its wide dissemination outside of the Canaanite sphere, spread by Phoenician merchants across the Mediterranean world, where it was adopted and modified by many other cultures. It became one of the most widely used writing systems.

They happened together.  The alphabet gave traders a method to directly trade with the populace, they had a local dictionary. Palacial economies would have ended.  That would be Phonecia and papyrus.

That is a code book, a dictionary. hat happen when we get vowels? We can take the same stem consonant an naturally change to another. We have a simple way of conjugation because the vocal languages all had vocal modifications to change tense. We see this in the IE languages.

We have a chain:
Pictographs, consonants, syllables then grammar. Grammar came with parchment.  Information technology shock, it is real.