Very much the same as elsewhere. Trading is a universal occupation.
Athens was enemies with Sparta and Sparta was enemies with Athens
Sparta full-time. Athens part-time.
Athens, Sparta was a war infested land. Bred only with the pure Sparta blood.
The actual trigger was Athens' ruinous trading ban on its neighbour Megara, which was a member of the Peloponnesian League headed by Sparta which was opposing Athenian expansionism. The League asked Athens to rescind the ban, Athens refused and war broke out.
Both city-states of ancient Greece bought goods for their own needs. But Athens was a sea-going trading nation and Sparta was not, so Athens was by far the biggest buyer and seller of goods of the two.
Sparta because they did not have as much freedom as Athens.
Athena
Sparta was different from Athens because Athens was more artlike and Sparta was tought to be tough ruthless people they were tought to steal kill and make slaves but on the other hand Athens did not go crazy with power like Sparta did they maintained society and they made laws to enforce what you should live like back then
In academics, Athens was better. When it came to fighting, Sparta was better.
Athens had a democracy; Sparta, an oligarchy.
they had different forms of government, Sparta had oligarchy while Athens had democracy. in Athens, you became a man when you turned 18, in Sparta you had to be 30. for money Athens had drachmas and Sparta had obols.
Athens's finnancial differences from Sparta were that Sparta had alot more gold and Athens had alot more credit.