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 name 'Mesopotamia' comes from Greek, and means the land between the two rivers.. A region in the Middle East which is defined as the land lying between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris in what is Iraq today. This region was the birthplace of the first civilizations, and among the leading regions in the world for about 3,000 years.