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.
Mesopotamia is one of the first known civilizations. Its name in translation from Greek actually means between two rivers, as it was located between the Tigris and the Euphr â¦ ates Rivers. Mesopotamia was also part of the area called the Fertile Crescent. Today, this is the area of Iraq. Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria were Mesopotamian civilizations. Babylonia and Assyria were the largest, and each was an incredible empire and made significant impacts on the development of civilizations as we know them today.