What legal term can best describe Hernando de Soto's actions in the New World?

Question

To put it simply he forced the Indian Chief to be imprisoned at his encampment and also forced him to agree to give him Indian porters and 100 Indian women. Also he and his men killed 3,000+ Indians when the Indians attacked de Soto and his men in an effort to stop them.

Answer 1

CONQUER!

Under the laws of HIS time it was.

You want to call him a murderer but in fact if he and others like him had not completed the work that they did you and I would not be having this conversation... or at least not in English.