While circuses may have been created by the Romans, bread most certainly was not created by them. Bread was around a long, long, long time before Rome was ever even a twinkle in the eyes of Romulus & Remus! See this webpage about that.
One thing is certain - beer was not created by the Romans but while they much preferred wine, and took grape vines with them to conquered countries to cultivate grapes for wine production, they also were responsible for spreading beer around the world within their domain. The little ice age and the Romans led to beer becoming much more popular. The little ice age made northern Europe too cold for the Romans, or anyone, to reliably cultivate grape vines and thus made it difficult, if not impossible, to produce wine at that time especially in more northerly parts of the Roman empire. See this page.
What did grow very well, in much cooler temperatures and damper conditions, than in which grapes would grow well, were hops & other grains. The Romans and others, who had previously made wine the drink of choice, had to settle for what was produced with those hops & grains such as ales, beers and whisky. Thus the Romans also wound doing much to spread hops & ales/beer around what was their world at the time and that was a big chunk of the planet.
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