Which city-state, Athens or Sparta, do you think would have a stronger fleet of ships?

Athens

Explanation:

they had a navy way stronger than the spartans

During Reconstruction, many small white farmers, thrown into poverty by the war, entered into cotton production, a major change from prewar days when they concentrated on growing food for their own families. ... Sharecropping dominated the cotton and tobacco South, while wage labor was the rule on sugar plantations.