https://ia902709.us.archive.org/26/items/America00Ogil/America00Ogil.pdf

AMER’ICAN, noun 

A native of America; originally applied to the aboriginals, or copper-colored races, found here by the Europeans; but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America.

Source: http://www.webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/american

colony (n.)

late 14c., “ancient Roman settlement outside Italy,” from Latin colonia “settled land, farm, landed estate,” from colonus “husbandman, tenant farmer, settler in new land,” from colere “to cultivate, to till; to inhabit; to frequent, practice, respect; tend, guard,” from PIE root *kwel- (1) “revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell” (source also of Latin -cola “inhabitant”). Also used by the Romans to translate Greek apoikia “people from home.”

In reference to modern situations, “company or body of people who migrate from their native country to cultivate and inhabit a new place while remaining subject to the mother country,” attested from 1540s. Meaning “a country or district colonized” is by 1610s.

Source:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/colony?ref=etymonline_crossreference

Source: https://www.un.org/dppa/decolonization/en/general-assembly

Reference:

https://youtu.be/DVLNRzgEJ98?t=10199

taxonomy (n.)

“science of classification,” 1819, from French taxonomie (1813), coined irregularly from Greek taxis “arrangement” (see tactics) + -nomia “method” (see -nomy). Related: Taxonomic; taxonomist.

tactics (n.)

1620s, “science of arranging military forces for combat,” from Modern Latin tactica (17c.), from Greek taktike techne “art of arrangement,” noun use of fem. of taktikos “of or pertaining to arrangement,” especially “tactics in war,” adjective to taxis “arrangement, an arranging, the order or disposition of an army, battle array; order, regularity,” verbal noun of tassein “arrange,” from PIE root *tag- “to touch, handle.”

Carolus Linnaeus, an eighteenth-century Swedish naturalist, was among the first scientists to sort and categorize human beings. He regarded humanity as a species within the animal kingdom and divided the species into four varieties: European, American, Asiatic, and African.

https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-2/science-race