As the demand for slaves grew, the Portuguese began to enter the interior of Africa to forcibly take captives; as other Europeans became involved in the slave trade, generally they remained on the coast and purchased captives from Africans who had transported them from the interior.
<span>The government controls all major aspects of the economy . In a command economy, it is the government that decides what to produce, how to produce goods and how to distribute goods and services within the economy. </span>
