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Conciliate - (verb) - 1: appease 2: to gain by pleasing acts 3: to make compatible: reconcile 4: to become friendly or agreeable.

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Bread and circuses were provided to the citizens of ancient Rome to conciliate them and try to prevent them from rioting.

For more information - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/conciliate?s=t

For the more historically bent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses