Eventful early life. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. After her parents' marriage ended, she and her brother, Bailey (who gave her the name Maya), were sent to rural Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother, who owned a general store.
The names used in the Bible are Babylon, Land of Shinar, and Mesopotamia. The word Mesopotamia means between the two rivers, more exactly between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The name Iraq, mean country with deep roots. Indeed Iraq is a country with deep roots and is a very significant country in the Bible.
The regional toponym Mesopotamia comes from the ancient Greek root words Î¼Î­ÏÎ¿Ï (meso) middle and ÏÎ¿ÏÎ±Î¼ÏÏ (potamia) river and literally means (Land) between rivers. It is used throughout the Greek Septuagint (ca. 250 BC) to translate the Hebrew equivalent Naharaim.esopotamia encompasses the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, both of which have their headwaters in the Armenian Highlands. Both rivers are fed by numerous tributaries, and the entire river system drains a vast mountainous region.