New World Order
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The New World Order was the ultimate goal for the Templar Order, a concept of world wide peace for humanity under the control and supervision of the Templars. For centuries, the Templars engaged in a secret war with the Assassins - who believed that humanity could achieve peace using free will - in order to achieve the New World Order. When the Templars founded Abstergo Industries in 1937, the company managed to manipulate and puppeteer many important political figures to pursue their own goals.
Ideology
Governed by the belief that humankind needed order, discipline, and control in order to mask its barbaric nature, the Templars planned to create a new world in which they possessed absolute control.[1]
The proclaimed new world seemed to be based on a utopian ideal, a world completely free of bigotry. However, the Templars also emphasized the establishment of a small ruling elite, who would control all aspects of civilization; from education, to military force, and food distribution.[1]
The Templars' rule would be one of so-called "benign tyranny," as although they would eliminate racism and the petty machinations of the warlords and princes of the time, they would simply replace that disordered chaos with their own arbitrary orders.[1]
At its core, the Templars' goal of order was very similar to the Creed of their enemies, the Assassins. However, the latter sought peace through the education of the people, rather than through their control.[1]
History
Ancient world
Since the dawn of the Templar Order, the concept of a New World Order had been heavily pursued. The Templars played roles in the establishments and expansions of many great kingdoms and empires, hoping to unite the world under the Templar banner.[2] Among these were notably the Achaemenid Empire under King Xerxes I, the Macedonian Empire under Alexander the Great, the Qin Dynasty of China under Qin Shi Huang, the Roman Republic under Gaius Julius Caesar,[3] Ancient Egypt under Cleopatra VII,[4] and the Roman Empire under Caligula.[3] Ultimately, all of these Templar interferences were thwarted by the Assassin Order, who assassinated each of these individuals.[2][5]
High Middle Ages
By the early 12th century, the Templars had established themselves as a knightly order known as the Order of the Knights Templar and pursued their goals from a public face. The Knights Templar joined the Crusader army under King Richard I of England as part of the Third Crusade in the late 12th century, and from 1189 continued their work in the Levant, where the seat of the Assassin Brotherhood was also located.[3]
When Robert de Sable became Grand Master of the Knights Templar in 1191, he began secretly recruiting Templar lieutenants on both the Crusader and Saracen sides of the Crusade, who secretly began making plans in defiance of their superior in order to conquer the Holy Land, namely Jerusalem, under the Templar banner. Their plans were eventually thwarted by a lone Assassin by the name of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad on orders of his Mentor Rashid ad-Din Sinan, who was previously a secret Templar.[1] Under the new Grand Master Armand Bouchart, the Templars purchased Cyprus from King Richard to continue their work in the Holy Land, but were ultimately routed and forced to return to France by Altaïr, after he killed Bouchart in 1193.[6]
Shortly before his death in 1312, the last publicly recognized Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, understood that the Templars could not survive as a public order and sent nine of his most trusted men throughout the world armed with the knowledge of the Ancients to pursue their goals globally, instead of under the command of one man.[4]