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 the Greek language and means the land between the rivers. These two rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates. The plain, broad area of flat, open land, that is located between the two rivers is a region called Sumer and spreads over more than 10,000 square miles. The Sumerians By 3000 B.C., 12 Sumerian cities dotted the Mesopatamian plain, they were known as city-states and were made up of a city and the surrounding villages and farmland that it controlled. The earliest Sumerian city-states were ruled by priests and the largest structures built were temples. The religion of Sumer was polytheism, the belief in many gods.