The Government offered them bread and circuses.
it was a free program for food supplements. And in top of that, the wealthy activists offered them free entrances to the public bathes
The spread of diseases from the new world to Europe and vice versa
The Columbian Exchange greatly affected almost every society on earth, bringing destructive diseases that depopulated many cultures, and also circulating a wide variety of new crops and livestock that, in the long term, increased rather than diminished the world human population:)
