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 in what is now Iraq, and is the very fertile area between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Mesopotamia is located between the rivers of Tigris and Euphrates, laâ¦rgely corresponding to the modern day Iraq, and also some part of northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey,and southeastern Iran. It is located in modern day Iraq. Mesopotamia was approximately 300 miles long and 150 miles wide.